The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Martin Amis

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

George Santayana

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Alvin Toffler

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Cecil Frank Powell

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

John Milton, The Devils Advocate

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Oscar Wilde

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Napoleon Hill

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

Kahlil Gibran

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Marian Wright Edelman

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Benjamin Franklin