If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

I ransack public libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.

Virginia Woolf

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.

Trevor Treharne

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

William Dean Howells

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Albert Einstein

Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems.

Source Unknown

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Johann von Goethe

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

Paul Davies

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Cassandra Clare