But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Timothy Radcliffe

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

E. Joseph Cossman

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Saint Francis de Sales

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Seamus Heaney

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Ewa Kopacz

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Christopher Hitchens

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Samuel Horsley

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Jim Samuels

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Diamond Sutra

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Joan Jett