There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

George Bernard Shaw

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Christopher Hitchens

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Thomas Sowell

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Thomas Wolfe

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Robert Huber

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

George Lucas

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, All right, then, I'll GO to hell.

Mark Twain

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Francis Parker Yockey

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Jacquelyn Gross

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

John Green