Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann von Goethe

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Terry Pratchett

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Stephen Cambone

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym

I have my own strength.

Nina Hagen

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Chris Cornell

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Diane Kruger

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Arthur C. Clarke

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Jodi Picoult

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Paramahansa Yogananda