Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

Democritus

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Albert Einstein

Innovation Big pain, no shame being same-to-same

Praveen Kumar

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Bella Abzug

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Terry Pratchett

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

Creed Bratton

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Ben Stein

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pericles

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Antonin Artaud, 1947

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Jane Austen