Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Muriel Barbery

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We cannot learn men from books.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Timothy Leary

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Ernest Renan

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

William Butler Yeats

When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

Archie Griffin

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

Matt Drudge

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence

Samuel Johnson