I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe -- with the part of it I occupy -- and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.as cited by Susan Sackett, author of Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir, used with permission

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Sir Richard Steele

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Elton John

Don't set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift

If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just to finish the race -- it's up to you.

Dave Scott

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Robert Fritz

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Matt Stone

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Brigitte Nielsen

Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford

Samuel Johnson

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

William Osler

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

John Ruskin