So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

Patricia Highsmith

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Kenny Loggins

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Sacks

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

Jami Gertz

To be the best in foosball, you need to play like Humble.

Foosball Champion

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

Bindi Irwin

But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there.

Elizabeth Strout

Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

Kemmons Wilson

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Karl Feyerabend