Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

Anthony de Mello

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Sir Winston Churchill

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Franco Nero

It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

Victor Weisskopf

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Neil Sheehan

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.

Oscar Wilde