There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

Richard Dawkins

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

James Dyson

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Doug Horton

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Oscar Wilde, Lord Henry, in the

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18

Albert Einstein

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Fran Drescher

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

Olympia Dukakis

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France