The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.

Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.

William Thomson

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Abraham Lincoln

When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Tommy Lee Jones

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Ford Frick

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Paul Auster

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Lance Armstrong

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

Katherine Jenkins

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Walter Bagehot

A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson