There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard
You must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it. That is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and dance and write poems and suffer and understand for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
While I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
Lance Armstrong
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
I consider time as an in immense ocean in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up
Joseph Addison
Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu
