Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.

Stephen Richards

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Gloria Swanson

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

Tadao Ando

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Herbie Hancock

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

Theresa May

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

Bertrand Russell

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

Victor Hugo

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some

Charles Dickens

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone