The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Wendell Phillips

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Rebecca West

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Sophie Kinsella

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

Alice Cooper

Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Walter Russell

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

John M. Barrie, The Little Minis

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

S. I. Hayakawa

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Henry Ford

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Desmond Tutu

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo