If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.

Mohammed

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

John O. Brennan

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Brian Eno

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Hector Hugh Munro

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Robert Bridges

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Sun Yat-sen

Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto

Steve Maraboli

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Omar Bradley

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley