Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Bryan Cranston

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Alfred Russel Wallace

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Henry David Thoreau

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Charles Simmons

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Konrad Lorenz

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

Madeleine L'Engle

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Jacques Barzun

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Doug Horton

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Jiddu Krishnamurti