Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Lin Yutang

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

Sid Meier

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the marvels of science and the gains of culture belong to the nation as a whole, and never again will man's brain and human genius be used for oppression and exploitation.

Vladimir Lenin

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Alistair Cooke

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Russell Crowe

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Ralph Nader

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

Richard Hammond