In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

Tiger Woods

The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.

Tabitha Suzuma

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

St. Francis De Sales

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Daniel J. Boorstin

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

Patti Smith

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

American Indian Proverb, Minquas

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

Li Na

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Ch.

Ideas are very important to me.

Bret Victor

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges

Kahlil Gibran

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

John Bruton