It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Jimmy Wales

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.

Orson Scott Card

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

Krist Novoselic

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Christopher Hitchens

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Robert Cialdini

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates

As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Stephen Richards

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

Nick Clegg