After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Paulo Coelho

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Albert Claude

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Eure Kinder sind nicht eure Kinder. - Sie sind die Söhne und Töchter der Sehnsucht des Lebens nach sich selber.

Kahlil Gibran

We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings--animals and plants--are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory beccause they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Dasein (literally being-the-there)...Man as man is present...in a manner wholly different from...inanimate things.

Medard Boss, Existential Foundat

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

Tester

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Junius

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Vaclav Havel

If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.

Tom Murphy