It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

David Byrne

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

P. J. O'Rourke

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Richard Bach

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

Publilius Syrus

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Abdus Salam

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

George Leigh Mallory

Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.

Robert Tew

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Caleb Colton

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Tony Visconti

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.

Leo Tolstoy

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

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