Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

Alan Moore

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Francis Bacon

I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.

Jerome Dean

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

Source Unknown

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Lindsey Buckingham

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Vladimir Lenin

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Wilfred Owen

To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

Hilaire Belloc, The Footpath Way

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Leonardo DaVinci

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

John Kenneth Galbraith