It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Patti Smith

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

Terry Pratchett

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Gary Ross

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight D Eisenhower

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.

Milan Kundera

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

John Green

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson