I believe that if one always looked at the skies one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert
When defeat comes accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
It is a truism that almost any sect cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew but rather to impress upon them that nothing not even... knowledge was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling
What is history? An echo of the past in the future, a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
