nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character. – Winston Churchill
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author and I speak like a child. – Vladimir Nabokov
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. – Virginia Woolf
He travels the fastest who travels alone. – Rudyard Kipling
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. – Muhammad Ali
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God. – Muhammad Ali
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. – Mary Kay Ash
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you. – Marilyn Monroe
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. – Julius Caesar
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong. – John Quincy Adams
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! – Henri Frederic Amiel
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, that all men would be tyrants if they could. – Daniel Defoe
Purity of speech,of the mind,of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. – Chanakya
And…I think that’s what life is all about, actually,
about children and flowers. – Audrey Hepburn