truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Leonardo DaVinci

The man who said in 1899: Everything that can be invented has been invented - technically, wasn't he right at the time?

John Alejandro King, The Covert

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

Source Unknown

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

James Allen

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

Source Unknown

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Steven Hatfill

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Bertrand Russell

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Bernard Baruch, 1929