If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Konrad Adenauer

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

David Zucker

Scars are an affirmation of living.

Joshua Wisenbaker

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

General Failure's Fault. Not Yours.

Anon.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Louis C. K.

Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Ambrose Bierce

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Rian Johnson

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Hans Eysenck

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn