Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

Neil Gaiman

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Eric Hoffer

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

Cassandra Clare

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

K. Eric Drexler

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

William Hazlitt

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

Tabitha Suzuma

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.

R. Southwell

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Molly Ivins

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

E. M. Forster