It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Bernard Kelvin Clive

The Night in Isla Negra

Pablo Neruda

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael Nesmith

I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

William Cowper

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Hugh Blair

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Abraham Lincoln

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

J. J. Abrams

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped

Oscar Wilde