The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget.

Michael Lipsey

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

Ian Somerhalder

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

David Zucker

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Mehmet Oz

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Carl Sagan

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Norah Jones

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

Christopher Dawson

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

Ron Reagan

America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.

Stephen King

If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Ludwig Wittgenstein