Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Polykarp Kusch

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

George Eliot

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

Kirsten Dunst

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Billy Connolly

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Martha Beck

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Ben Nicholson

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Rosalia de Castro

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.

Gregory Dean Jr.