Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Aberjhani

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.

Anthony de Mello

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Victor Hugo

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Confucius

Tienes que oír mi amor con su voz, tocarlo en su carne, aceptarlo como es, desnudo y libre.

Jaime Sabines

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

Gary Numan

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holiday

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Thomas Carper

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

Herbert Marcuse

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

Martin Gore