It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

Bertrand Russell

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

Johnny Winter

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Floyd Abrams

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe

Thomas Carlyle

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Jess Moody

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Dennis Hastert

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.

Leo Tolstoy