"They are able because they think they are able." Virgil
"Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have." Helen Maria Fiske
"In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is bad." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I had been able to observe that there was a sprightly sportsman behind the counter mixing things out of bottles and stirring them up in long glasses that seemed to have ice in them, and the urge came upon me to see more of this man." Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all."
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
"'I grant you that he's not two-faced,' I said. 'But what's the use of that when the one face he has got is so peculiarly unpleasant?'" Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester
"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself." John Kenneth Galbraith
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." Mario Puzo, a fat guy with a big cigar
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." Italo Calvino
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" Lee Iaccoca
"We offer Granny the sandwiches first, before we take the whole lot on our plate. We don't take the raisins out of the scones halfway through a conversation, or flick them across the table." Fergie, Duchess of York