The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.

Lady Gaga

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Princess of Wales Diana

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Percy Ross

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Bill Bryson

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.

Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Mem

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

Monica Seles

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

M. Scott Peck

God is the same everywhere.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Bryan Cranston

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

John Gray