Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

William Shakespeare

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

William James

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

Abu Bakar Bashir

He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all.

Victor Hugo

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Frederick Douglass

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand.

Leo Tolstoy

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Doug Coupland

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

Joanna Trollope