Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

Shailene Woodley

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Eric Butterworth

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

Abraham Lincoln

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Rita Mae Brown

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Mary J. Blige

speak hard, steal the air.

Anne McCaffrey

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

Evelyn Glennie

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Gita Bellin

A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Samuel Johnson