Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Thierry Henry

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Leo Tolstoy

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

Ferdinand Mount

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H.G. Wells

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

Robert Lanza

We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn't. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet's random geological savagery.

Arthur C. Clarke

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

John Green

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of my life is to try out the ideas I have for it.

Martin Firrell