Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Charles Horton Cooley

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.note: Whenever Heifetz played in trios with Arthur Rubinstein (piano) and Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Rubinstein always got top billing.

Jascha Heifetz, "Los Angeles Tim

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Kathie Lee Gifford

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Mehmet Oz

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Thomas Reid

Records are made to be broken.

Terry Vaughn

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Marshall McLuhan

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

J.K. Rowling

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Sonny Perdue

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Don Marquis