Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

Russell Crowe

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Emma Goldman

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Horace Greeley

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

George MacDonald

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.published in the collection The Wind Among the Reeds and quoted in the movie Equilibrium (2002)

William Butler Yeats, He wishes

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

Taylor Hackford

There is properly no history; only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

Magnus Carlsen

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

Richard Le Gallienne