We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Ben Sweetland

God has arranged strange ways for some of us to find him. Sometimes He brings us on long physical journeys; sometimes He leaves us at home and makes the journey internal. Yours has been both. You have gone a long way and struggled a great deal, but I can see from your eyes that it was not for nothing.

Abigail J. Hartman

When the light turns green, don't race to the next one.

Anonymous

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Repo

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

Johannes Stark

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

Edgar Cayce

All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it

Clara Ortega

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

John Sterling

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

George Bancroft

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Daniel H. Wilson