We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe

In the only sense that matters the surprise works as well the twentieth time as the first. It is the quality of unexpectedness, not the fact that delights us. It is even better the second time. Knowing that the 'surprise' is coming we can now fully relish the fact that this path through the shrubbery doesn't look as if it were suddenly going to bring us out on the edge of the cliff. So in literature. We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we are leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness. The children understand this well when they ask for the same story over and over again, and in the same words. They want to have again the 'surprise' of discovering that what seemed Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is really the wolf. It is better when you know it is coming: free from the shock of actual surprise you can attend better to the intrinsic surprisingness of the peripeteia.

C.S. Lewis

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

Gordon Moore

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

George Foreman

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Gary Bauer

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Proverb

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Robert Penn Warren

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

William M. Kelly

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker