There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.

Julie Gittus

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Vera Farmiga

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Ghose Aurobindo

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Billy Corgan

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Brigitte Bardot

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

Pliny The Younger

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

Harry Dean Stanton