Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maxwell Maltz

No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign

Albert Einstein

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

William Stanley Jevons

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick the Great

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Jesus Christ

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Robyn Davidson

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

David Attenborough

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

Joe Poyer

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

William Blake

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Mos Def