If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas Alva Edison

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Swami Sivananda

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Henry David Thoreau

To look pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Jane Austen

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Joe Jamail

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Robert Brault

I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

Orson Scott Card

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

Jeff Goodell

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

Terry Pratchett