May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

John D. MacDonald

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Rudy Rucker

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.

Santosh Kalwar

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.

Bill Keane

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Nathaniel Branden

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.

Sally Kempton

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Henry Ford

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Maria Montessori

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Mason Cooley