There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

Mitch Daniels

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Karl Marx

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

John Geddes

Should you revisit us Stay a little longer And get to know the place... On local life we trust The resident witness Not the royal tourist.

Kingsley Amis

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.Macaulay's minute on education arguing for the use of English in India

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Sir William Temple

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Taisen Deshimaru

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Condoleezza Rice

Life too near paralyses art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson