Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Jonathan Miller

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Plato, Phaedo

If we’re not stretching, we’re not growing. If we’re not growing, we’re probably not fulfilling our potential. The only person in this room that knows your potential is you.

Kevin Turner

Once upon a timeof all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eveold Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

Charles Dickens

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Leo Tolstoy

...although both the Academics and the Pyrrhonian Skeptics say that they believe some things, yet here too the difference between the two philosophies is quite plain. For the word believe has different meanings; it means not to resist but simply to follow without any strong impulse or inclination, as the boy is said to believe his tutor; but sometimes it means to assent to a thing of deliberate choice and with a kind of sympathy due to strong desire, as when the incontinent man believes him who approves of an extravagant mode of life. Since, therefore, Carneades and Cleitomachus declare that a strong inclination accompanies their credence

Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Py

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Allen Klein

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Paul Kantner

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

P. J. O'Rourke

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow