Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

E.M. Forster

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Sir William Temple

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.

Steven Pinker

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Jorge Luis Borges

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Angelina Jolie

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Henry Ford

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

Patrick Kavanagh

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

William Graham Sumner

When the network becomes as fast as the backplane of your computer, the computer hollows out, its components dispersing across the Web, its value migrating to search and sort functions.

Eric Schmidt

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides