It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

William Hazlitt

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Daniel Petrie

No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth canEnrich that smile her eyes began.

William Henry Davies

The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found that captive white-footed mice spent inordinate time and energy just resisting experimental manipulation. If the experimenters turned the lights up, the mouse spent his time turning them down. If the experimenter turned the lights down, the mouse turned them up. The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

Martin E. P. Seligman

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Thomas Fuller

I asked the zebra,Are you black with white strips?Or white with black strips?And the zebra asked me,Are you good with bad habits?Or are you bad with good habits?Are you noisy with quiet times?Or are you quiet with noisy times?Are you happy with sad days?Or are you sad with happy days?Are you neat with some sloppy ways?Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?And on and on and on and onAnd on and on he went.I'll never ask a zebraAbout stripesAgain.

Shel Silverstein, Zebra Question

Only you should decide for you what is perfect.

Ellen Hopkins

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Milos Forman

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn