History is fables agreed upon.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Neil Armstrong

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Princess of Wales Diana

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carl Jung

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

Mayim Bialik

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Thorstein Veblen

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Robert Lindner

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

Bobby Rahal

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

Jennifer Lopez

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

Terry Pratchett