Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest

William Shakespeare

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Karl Marx

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Sophocles

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

Tom Kristensen

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Mortimer Adler

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Jerry Moran

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Russell Hoban

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Lewis Mumford

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

Ed Smith