I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

E. F. Schumacher

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

James Lovelock

?Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

Steve Maraboli

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

George Steiner

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.

Steve Maraboli

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Publilius Syrus

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

Guglielmo Marconi