Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

Terri Windling

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

Andrew Weil

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Victor Hugo

When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.

Mae West

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Tom Hanks

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The eye is easily frightened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

John Ruskin

The government invented the Internet.

Jon Meacham