A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Rodney Dangerfield

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Maya Lin

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michel Gondry

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Josef Albers

We've discovered the secret of life.

Francis Crick

Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who areof a certain nature; he who is not, not.

Plato

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

Amber Heard

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Mary Wollstonecraft

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E.M. Forster

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

John Le Carr, The Chancellor Who