In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Mailer

In age, talk; in childhood, tears.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Daniel Goleman

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Thomas Fuller

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

Cynthia Nixon

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Joel Chandler Harris

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Albert Camus

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Herbert Read

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

W. C. Fields

There's a way to do better... find it.

Thomas Alva Edison