So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aurelius

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

Leona Lewis

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Albert Camus

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

Laura Linney

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Jodi Picoult

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

Sir John Lubbock

One planet, one experiment.

Edward O. Wilson