The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Source Unknown

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Muhammad Iqbal

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

George Eliot

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Salman Rushdie

We must do the best we can with what we have.

Edward Rowland Sill

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Story Musgrave

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Fred Woodworth

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Larry Wall

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Terry Eagleton

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Paulo Coelho

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal