Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith

We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves

Mark Twain

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Koichi Tanaka

Could everything be done twice it would be done better.

Proverb

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

Clive Barker

In a way, the world?view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

George Orwell

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Roger Staubach

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Gertrude Stein

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Michel de Montaigne

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Scott Walker

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu