Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ivern Ball

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

William Shakespeare

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Samuel Johnson

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Andrew Wiles

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

SunTzu

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Felix E. Schelling

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

John Patrick

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Bob Woodward

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

Usain Bolt

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Marcus Garvey

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln