When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

Bill Sienkiewicz

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Robert Townsend

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Science is all metaphor.

Timothy Leary

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Tom Hooper

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it

Terry Pratchett

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, c

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.

William Bolitho

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Adam Savage

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Umberto Eco

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho