Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Who doesn't want to shortcut the greatness.

Jackson Evans

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

Chinese Proverb

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Paul Davies

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Paulo Coelho

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Kin Hubbard

Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Edmund Wilson

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am.

Trinidad Hunt

Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

Jon Krakauer