All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James A. Baldwin

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Thomas Kempis

You can miss a person you've never known.

Jodi Picoult

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

Joe Scarborough

Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

Arthur Machen

All seems infected that the infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crit

We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.

George Bush

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel