Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Believe in miracles as if there's no work, but work as if there are no miracles. When miracles and hard work come together success is certain.

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.