Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell, Politics and the

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Sir Walter Besant

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Cyril Connolly

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

Sarah Zettel

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

That leaves 93 percent of potential untapped. Humans only use 10 percent of the brain and 7 percent of company databases, yet we

Christina Bultinck, Mine Your Ow

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine of Hippo