To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Elizabeth Taylor

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

Simon Mainwaring

I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Steve Jobs

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodne

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Kent Conrad

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby