Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

William E. Rothschild

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Isaac Newton

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Bill Cosby

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Andrew Motion

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

Michael Jordan

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Glenn Beck

My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

Tim Burton

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

J. E. McCulloch

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Conrad Hall