The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

Ralph Merkle

I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

Rodney Dangerfield

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Mia Hamm

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Reggie Jackson

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Albert Einstein

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare

It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself

Lou Andeas-Salome

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Hitopadesa

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Hillary Clinton