The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

James Hall

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Source Unknown

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

Bjorn Lomborg

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Never let your dreams go away.

Mike Piazza

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

My friends! There are no friends

Aristotle

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Les Brown

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Christine de Pizan

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

Steve Jobs

From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

J.K. Rowling