For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Charles Lamb

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Jane Austen

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

David Duchovny

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Maya Lin

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Cesar Nascimento

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann von Goethe

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Paul Twitchell

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear

Benjamin Franklin

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Eugene Debs

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich