If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Alfred Adler

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?

Orson Scott Card

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

Patty Hearst

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne