Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Catherine Booth

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Gustav Jung

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

J.K. Rowling

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Francis Bacon

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Alistair Grant

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Marvin Traub

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Ted Hughes

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

David Frum

Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of howWe are working to completion, working on from then to now.Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,And the obliquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams, The Old Astronom