We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Thomas Huxley

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

John F. Kennedy

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

Thomas Carlyle

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Joe Pantoliano

Bring forth the horse! - the horse was brought; In truth, he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs.

Lord Byron

Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It's too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they cameand he pushedand they flew...

Christopher Logue, written for a

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Jimmy Breslin

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Keanu Reeves

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Publilius Syrus