Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Dave Chappelle

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Phillip E. Johnson

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

Emma Thompson

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born,Whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn;And here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sinIn tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

Rudyard Kipling, Naaman

everything changes, nothing perishesomnia mutantur, nihil interit

Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.165

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Mark Cuban

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge