Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

Bobby Rahal

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Vladimir Nabokov

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in , and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?

Christopher Hitchens

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.

James Baldwin

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve

Benny Bellamacina

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Samuel Johnson

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off

Sylvia Plath

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beingsthat doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

Don't focus so much on who is following you, that you forget to lead.

E'yen A. Gardner