If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. I notice too, that the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear: This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber, Corporation Nati

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Thomas Aquinas

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Ecco che cos'era la vita, che cos'era l'esperienza, che cosa inseguivano coloro che andavano in cerca di avventure, ecco a che cosa mirava l'arte: ritornare a casa propria, ai propri affetti, riprendere la vita

Boris Pasternak

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

Ann Romney

Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula

Aristotle

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Margaret Thatcher

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Robert Byrd

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hugh Hamilton

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Arthur Bloch