Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian

Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.

Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Anita Loos

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about

Bertrand Russell

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Henry David Thoreau

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Simone Weil

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Norman Vincent Peale

All diseases run into one. Old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson