I desire Virtue, though I love her not-I have no faith in her when she is got:I fear that she will bind and make me slaveAnd send me songless to the sullen grave.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

SunTzu

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

Ian Mcewan

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss.

Ramayana

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

Albert Einstein

A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active

Bertrand Russell

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Edward Carpenter

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham

Martin Luther King Jr.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Bible