Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - Speech is silver, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity

Thomas Carlyle

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

George Best

Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.

Anonymous

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Ben Barnes

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Minoru Yamasaki

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Paulo Coelho

The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!His brow was sad; his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Exce

Your silence gives consent.

Plato

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Alvin Kernan