I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams

we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand

Albert Einstein

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Stephen King

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Albert Einstein

I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

Edward John Trelawny

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

Neil Gaiman

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Walter Bagehot

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas A. Edison

I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.

Jimmy Fallon

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

Selma Blair

I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.

Harry Styles

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein