I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

Source Unknown

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

Sigourney Weaver

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Be the one, be worthy.

Elsie Chapman

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

John Green

Go, Soul, the body

Sir Walter Raleigh, The Lie

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

Sam Harris

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Paul Theroux

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Terry Pratchett

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)