Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Lennart Nilsson

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Paulo Coelho

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Cassandra Clare

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

J. August Strindberg

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

E. M. Cioran

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

G. W. F. Hegel

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Ivan Reitman

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Cat Stevens

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald