The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.

Annie Dillard

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope

Voltaire

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Aldous Huxley

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Wor

I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm

Mary Guyette

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Ellen DeGeneres

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

Voltaire

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Steve Jobs

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

Ja Rule

The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

Christopher Hitchens