This book is not a biography; it is the confession of every man who struggles. In publishing it I have fulfilled my duty, the duty of a person who struggled much, was embittered in his life

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

John Sculley

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Jeremy Collier

Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present.

Source Unknown

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

Janet Street-Porter

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Matthew Prior

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet...

William Shakespeare, Romeo and J

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Henry Miller

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Harriet Tubman

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

Josefa Iloilo

so high, so low, so many things to know.

Vernor Vinge