My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying 'hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan.

John Green

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

Kingsley Amis

I shall assume that your silence gives consent

Plato

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

W. M. Lewis

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Ernest Renan

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jos

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles Swindoll

In order to be realist you must believe in miracles.

David BenGurion

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

Karl R. Popper