A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Amanda Peet

...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...

John Geddes

I think it's crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to ensure that we have a voice in what the world looks like.

Karlie Kloss

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.

Temple Grandin

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

William Least Heat-Moon

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Gracie Allen

The late Bill Nye once said I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Publilius Syrus