An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

William Mountford

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Jules Renard

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.Macaulay's minute on education arguing for the use of English in India

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

John Walsh

In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.

Nicolai A. Berdyaev

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Jeremy Renner

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four

George Orwell

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

Ezra Miller

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker