A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

People don't fail, they give up

Source Unknown

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Henry David Thoreau

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.

Sir Francis Doyle

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

Vera Wang

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Kate Adie

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nevell Bovee

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Lisa Bonet

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Bhumibol Adulyadej