What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Saint Isaac of Nineveh

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Johann von Goethe

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Buddha

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Sherman Alexie

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.

John Fiske

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

Tom Cruise

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

Stephen King

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Nikki Giovanni

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Peace Pilgrim

A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller