Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

Christina Ricci

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

George Bernard Shaw

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

J.K. Rowling

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

Simon Mainwaring

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

David Brown

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

David Hume

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

Vladimir Nabokov

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

John Ruskin

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Feather