When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Jodi Picoult

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

T. S. Eliot

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Henry Louis Gates

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Dhani Harrison

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Plato

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.

Max Planck

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Rosie O'Donnell