We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

Bible

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Leo Tolstoy

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

Henry George

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

Sarah Hyland

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Mae West

It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depends. Historically this has been achieved by the influence of the various religious creeds and by traditions and superstitions which made man submit to those forces by an appeal to his emotions rather than to his reason. The most dangerous stage in the growth of civilization may well be that in which man has come to regard all these beliefs as superstitions and refuses to accept or to submit to anything which he does not rationally understand. The rationalist whose reason is not sufficient to teach him those limitations of the powers of conscious reason, and who despises all the institutions and customs which have not been consciously designed, would thus become the destroyer of the civilization built upon them. This may well prove a hurdle which man will repeatedly reach, only to be thrown back into barbarism.

Friedrich A. Hayek

I'm not into business at all.

Freddie Mercury

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe