My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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

Norah Jones

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

George Bernard Shaw

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.

Bjorn Lomborg

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Curt Schilling

I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

Lauren Conrad

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Godfrey Reggio

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Barbara Kingsolver

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Luis Bunuel