It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Anais Nin

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

Thomas Carlyle

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Paulo Coelho

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Nigel Mansell

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

Paris Hilton

Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh

Austin O'Malley

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Paul Davies

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Karl Lagerfeld

If I am through learning, I am through.

John Wooden

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama