I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Garry Kasparov

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Anthony Trollope

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

A. R. Rahman

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

George Orwell

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,

Charles Lamb

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Adolph Meyer

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Paul Samuelson

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

Thomas Kretschmann

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Patrick Rothfuss

I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette