Headlines twice the size of the events.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

Omar Bradley

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Jaron Lanier

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Walter Bagehot

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

Max Irons

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company

Samuel Johnson

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Muddy Waters

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Jane Austen

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie

Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

James Joyce