Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitzer

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Professor Blackie

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Imran Khan

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Prince Andrew

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Gil Atkinson

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Dean Acheson, from a speech to t

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

George Herbert

Romantic love is painful.

will.i.am

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

Richard Dooling