Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

John Milton

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

Jonas Eriksson

Optimization hinders evolution.

Anon.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Evelyn Ashford

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Oscar Wilde

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

William Shakespeare

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

Neil Gaiman

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Berenice Abbott

I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Ey Wade

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Robert Browning