"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe."

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler."

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"Man is the cruelest animal."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."