In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Fortune is no real thing.But men who cannot bear what comes to themIn Nature's way, give their own charactersThe name of Fortune.

Menander

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

To be a materialist is to acknowledge objective truth, which is revealed to us by our sense organs.

Vladimir Lenin

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

Felix Baumgartner

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Virginia Woolf

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Albert Camus

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance

Samuel Johnson

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein