In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Galileo Galilei, quoted in M Kli

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Sue Grafton

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Don't augment your complaints, augment your actions.

Steve Maraboli

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Marge Piercy

New Orleans in an amazing town.

Benjamin Walker

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

William Wordsworth

I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

Ed Belfour

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Katharine Hepburn

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Erica Jong

A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Jodi Picoult