We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Goldwin Smith

Sports life is very short.

Sergei Bubka

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

Richard Gere

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Thierry Henry

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Campbell Scott

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

Alfred Tennyson

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Monday is the key day of the week.

Scottish Proverb