Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Mark Twain

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Hector Hugh Munro

The most important thing in life is the path to perfection, and what kind of perfection can exist if a person is proud and satisfied with himself?

Leo Tolstoy

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

C.S. Lewis

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

Ram Charan

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Ruth J. Simmons

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot