The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

V.S. Ramachandran

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Evan Esar

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Charlie Chaplin

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Orhan Pamuk

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

The man for whom law exists the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.

Henry David Thoreau

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Hillary Clinton

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Paulo Coelho

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

John Green

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Carl Sagan