Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

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

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. (Anais Nin)

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

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)

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

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (H. H. Munro (Saki))

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

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

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