It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kofi Annan

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Kanye West

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Ambrose Bierce

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Thomas Fuller

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Nadia Scrieva

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

Gillian Anderson

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Jim Al-Khalili

I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.

Kenneth Olsen

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Alvin Toffler

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Alanis Morissette