If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

J.K. Rowling

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Bishop Robert South

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Albert Einstein

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Wallace Stevens

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Kennedy

O, if I say, you look upon this verse,When I perhaps compounded am with clay,Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,But let your love even with my life decay;Lest the wise world should look into your moan,And mock you with me after I am gone.

William Shakespeare

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

George Washington Carver

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins