It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to try more than if you are a pessimist.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord

Lydia Brownback

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Claude Bernard

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Billy Connolly

My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung. An epic of the eyes My love, with no disguise.

Theodore Roethke

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Barack Obama

I got an answering machine for my phone. Now when I'm not homeand somebody calls me up, they hear a recording of a busysignal. I like to leave messages before the beep.

Steven Wright

Better slip with foot than tongue

Benjamin Franklin