To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Terry Pratchett

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Jean Baudrillard

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Susan Taylor

What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.

Source Unknown

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

Eli Pariser

You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield

Matthew Quick

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Al Bauman

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

Carl Lewis

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre