Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Duke Ellington

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Victor Hugo

Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthsiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.'Nevertheless, it was beautiful.

Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Ti

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Daniel Akaka

I have loved him too much not to hate

Jean Racine

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Harry S. Truman

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Tad Williams

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

Steven Wright

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

Tiger Woods