I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Sun Tzu

I have used these weeks to revalue values. Do you understand this expression? When you come right down to it, the alchemist is the most praiseworthy of men: I mean the one who changes something negligible or contemptible into something of value, even gold. He alone enriches, the others merely exchange. My task is quite singular this time: I have asked myself what mankind has always hated, feared, and despised the most

Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to G

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

Kelly Osbourne

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Willa Cather

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

Michael Phelps

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Will Cuppy

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Andre Breton

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Rod Taylor