Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

William Moulton Marston

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

Rachel Carson

While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

Carol Bellamy

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

John von Neumann

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Edmund Burke

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

James Fenimore Cooper

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Will Rogers

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Marc Jacobs

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Dick Armey