Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Eleanor Farjeon

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

Frances Wright

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Lafcadio Hearn

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Yogabindu Upanishad

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

The primary factor is proportions.

Arne Jacobsen

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Yogi Berra

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

Johnny Depp

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins