Dhammika Amaratunga

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within." - Horace Friess

"Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, pain or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart and mind." - Paul Becker

"Happiness often sneaks in through doors you didn't know you kept open." - John Barrymore

"Not all those who wander are lost." - Tolkien

"Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"" - George Bernard Shaw

"Those who can't laugh at themselves are just leaving the job to others."

“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.” - William Shakespeare

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - Jack Buck

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." - Thomas Mann

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves." - William Hazlitt

"Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism." 

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” - Albert Einstein

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." - Edward R Murrow

"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager

"People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." -Hermann Goering

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics." - George Bernard Shaw

"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose." -Florence Nightingale (one-time ASA member)

"Torture numnbers enough and they'll confess to anything" - Gregg Easterbrook 

"The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the n-th power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases." - Comment of an English judge on the subject of Indian statistics and quoted by Sir Josiah Stamp in "Some Economic Matters in Modern Life"

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” - Albert Einstein