The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

We need to respect choices that women make.

Ann Romney

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Michael Pollan

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Torquato Tasso

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoug

Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.

Marc Fumaroli

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

Source Unknown

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Rupert Murdoch

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

William Hazlitt

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Joyce Meyer