The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. (Leon Trotsky)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)

I begin by taking.I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. (Frederick (II) the Great)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)