Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist.

Elizabeth Kay

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

We know from our history that while promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades.

Robert A. McDonald

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

David Mamet

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

Daisaku Ikeda

Letters to absence can a voice impart,And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Horace Walpole, Horace Walpole

To reason about love is to lose reason.

Boufflers

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..

Aldous Huxley

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Friedrich Nietzsche