Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Henry A. Wallace

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

Roald Dahl

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Joseph Addison

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

Giorgio Faletti

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Julianna Margulies

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potter

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel