For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing - unique to him and fitted to his talents.What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.

Felix Alba-Juez

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Virginia Woolf

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Stockard Channing

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Joseph Abboud

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Augustus

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Archie Panjabi

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

John H. Groberg

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Voltaire

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Melissa Gilbert

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Friedrich Nietzsche