In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.

Liz Murray

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

I don't change. The things around me change.

Jeremy Renner

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Theodore White, American Journal

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Edward W. Howe

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

Lope de Vega

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James Barrie