Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Johann Pestalozzi

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past.

Karl Marx, Letter to Joseph Wede

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Olivia Williams

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Harvey Fierstein

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

Samuel Wilson

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

Barry Long

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

John Barton

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

Anthony de Mello

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Leon Battista Alberti