Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

Marc Andreessen

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Deng Xiaoping

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

Daisaku Ikeda

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

Miranda Cosgrove

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Albert Camus

The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/ttcstan3.html

LaoTzu, Tao Te Ching ch. 64

He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.

Christopher Hitchens

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Walt Disney Company

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,

Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the