The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Olivier Martinez

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Samuel Beckett

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

Melanie Brown

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.

William Shakespeare

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Erwin Rommel

Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father, Will said. That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I will only ever love you until I die

Cassandra Clare

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Jacqueline Carey

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller