Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Richard Paul Evans

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way.

Teddy Thompson

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

Lucy Grealy

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

William Shakespeare

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

Neale Donald Walsch

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henry Miller

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.

Source Unknown

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Thomas Hood

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

Dan O'Brien