No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Virginia Woolf

I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.

Richard Deupree

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Charles Dickens

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Thomas L. Holdcroft

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Bill Gates

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

Edward Tufte

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life stand still here.

Virginia Woolf

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel