Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Neil Armstrong

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

Jodi Picoult

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Mahatma Gandhi

The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Max Born

Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.

Hayley Williams

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Alan Watts

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Jamie Luner

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

Source Unknown

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Megan Whalen Turner

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Paulo Coelho