Thomas Huxley

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

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Unknown

Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

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Paul Tournier

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

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Greek Proverb

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

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Peter Sellers

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

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Henry Bessemer

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

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William Feather

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

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