I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

What nearly everybody in my life

Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Ro

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Don Nickles

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

Cassandra Clare

Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It's simply about taking the leap....and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may soar.

Kristi Bowman

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

Paul Auster

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Cassandra Clare

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

Charles Monroe Schulz, Lucy Van