Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

Robin Macnaughton

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

John Donne

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.

Lara Santoro

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Harry Mathews

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Source Unknown

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Michelle Bachelet

There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.

Proverb

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986)

Ronald Reagan

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Mitch Hedberg

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Abraham Lincoln