A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

We only see what we aim at.

Jordan B. Peterson

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

William Cobbett

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

Lil Wayne

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Jodi Picoult

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Robert Mapplethorpe

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of exis

Albert Einstein

The sky is no longer the limit.

Richard Milhous Nixon