Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

My mom is definitely my rock.

Alicia Keys

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.

Debbie Stabenow

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Robert B. Laughlin

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Corey Hart

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Source unknown A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

Source Unknown

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

Mira Nair

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jos

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Henry David Thoreau

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Javier Bardem

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Eric Hoffer