It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.

I want to go down in history.

Haile Gebrselassie

When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.

Susan Anton

The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Claude Bernard

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverb

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Jane Taylor

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Spike Milligan

This is an extraordinary time in the history of science, in that we cannot only theorize about the beginning of the universe, but actually study the celestial fossils of how it happened.

John Moffat

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

John Selden

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Gustav Jung