A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

Stefan Edberg

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

History is but a confused heap of facts.

Lord Chesterfield

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Bill Budge

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

Albert Einstein

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Don't demand perfection. But insist on continuous improvement.

Torley

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

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I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Christopher Columbus