Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Vernon A. Walters

If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Samuel Johnson

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

Thomas Hughes

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

John Barrow

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Steve Maraboli

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Francis Bacon

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Cormac McCarthy

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love

Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

Dominic Cooper