My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku ?ovje?anstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

Albert Einstein

But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.

Stonewall Jackson

You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn't want to go, you'd much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet me and would she please, please come along with you, and hopefully you'd be able to get away more quickly? And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am too,' Hermione added as an afterthought.'But I don't think you're ugly,' said Harry, bemused.Hermione laughed.

J.K. Rowling

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Les Brown

It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

John C. Lilly

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Psalms 39:4

Bible

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

Terry Pratchett

Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth century, to forge a brief link with the greatest biologist of the nineteenth: Charles Darwin. . . . . . We know this because later that day he wrote hesitantly to Darwin to report what he had found.

Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Disc