No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Vinton Cerf

The world is shaped by two things stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Vera Nazarian

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

Richard Nelson Bolles

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

United we stand, divided we fall.

George Pope Morris

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Woodrow Wilson

The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

Lazare Carnot

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

Helena Bonham Carter