If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.Muhammad Ali
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.Simone Weil
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.Simone Weil
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.F. Scott Fitzgerald
