The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Of toiling, uncheered and alone,

Source Unknown

I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.

Emmitt Smith

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else.

Patrick Ness

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Deborah Tannen

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

It ain't over 'till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Aldous Huxley

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Hillary Clinton

People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.

Louise Penny

Let's have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn