The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Henry David Thoreau

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Stephen Hawking

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Bob Dole

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Margaret Oliphant

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Robert Wagner

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Ernst Mach

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

Joyce Grenfell