There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Harold MacMillan

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

Terry Pratchett

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

William Shakespeare

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Voltaire

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

Jose Rizal

People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Frank Romer

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Bill Gates

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Karl Lagerfeld

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

Robert James Waller

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Paulo Coelho