No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Neil Gaiman

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Samantha Morton

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

Samuel Johnson

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

Albert Einstein

History can never be covered up.

Zhu Rongji

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Cliff Shaw

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

Albert Einstein

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx