By nature I'm not a brooder.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thomas Carlyle

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Voltaire

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

William Temple

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Donna Shalala

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

William Shakespeare

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

David Lynch

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Edward James Olmos

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

Oscar Nunez

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Abu Bakr

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan