Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Stephen Wolfram

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Lauryn Hill

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Ron Ben-Israel

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

Mikhail Lermontov

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

Barbara Tuchman

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

Menander

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

Theodore Roosevelt

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

Steve Backley

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

Vin Diesel

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero