Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Norman Macleod

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Henry A. Kissinger

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Anne Rice

That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in?

Deeanne Gist

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I am monarch of all I survey,

William Cowper, The Solitude of

It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

Horace Mann

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

James Chanos

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sadaharu Oh

Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Walter Russell