I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently

Friedrich Nietzsche

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Paulo Coelho

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Thomas Kempis

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

John Walters

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Eartha Kitt

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Bertha von Suttner

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Epictetus

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Hillary Clinton

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Orison Swett Marden

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Steven Wright