It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Albert Einstein

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Marie Carmichael Stopes

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Leo Tolstoy

He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

J.K. Rowling

Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth.

Subhas Chandra Bose

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Christian Nevell Bovee

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

Alexis de Tocqueville

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce