I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. (John D. Rockefeller)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. (George Burns)

I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it. (John F. Kennedywhen asked what is his favorite song)

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It’s the transition that’s troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)