"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"

"Become who you are!"

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."

"The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls"

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."

"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"If you know the why, you can live any how."

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive."

"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself."

"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."

"That's just part of how this generation has been raised. You add a $40,000 price tag for a school like Colgate, and you have high expectations for what you get."

"We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter."

"We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth."

"However, some specific remarks were inappropriate and ran the risk of calling into question John's own impartiality and, by extension, that of the BBC. We've made it clear to him that this must not happen again."

"We weren't prepared to take the risk last week with David Johnson, in saying that he's had about two weeks of really solid training where we've really given him a huge amount of work, tried to put match conditioning into him to see if we got through last week, and we have to wait and see whether we choose to play him this week."

"We would love to put (a trophy) in there. We played off for one a couple years ago. We played reasonable footy but we lost the game. We didn't handle the loss well."

"We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense."

"I don't think the game has any problems at all. We shouldn't keep trying to predict how the game might be played in three or four years. Everybody is happy how the game is going now."

"If your father didn't work there, chances are an uncle of yours did."

"Documentary is quite good at putting on the clothes of other genres, ... But (we) still want a genre that is true to itself -- it takes a lot of will power to say 'that's enough, let's try something else."

"All they'll be playing for is to have a win in their last game and it just gives them something to look forward to next season,"

"My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,"

"A couple of years ago I was out with some friends and all they had on the boat was a wakeboard, so I thought, ‘Why not?'"

"We remain committed to our gross margin improvement goals that have us reaching 30 percent in 2006 and mid-30 percent in 2007. Our focus in 2006 is on improving our product mix, delivering more new leadership analog and integrated power products while reducing our exposure to lower margin standard products."

"We set some aggressive operational and financial goals in the middle of last year, and I'm pleased to report that Fairchild has delivered impressive first-quarter results, ahead of our expectations."

"(The BBC) doesn't have to take cynical or commercial decisions, it should really put its money where its heart is"