Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Seymour Papert

Through the practice of meditation, of calming and focusing our mind, as well as developing greater clarity and a sense of awareness, we train ourselves to recognize the wealth that was already there - the very wealth others fail to recognize.

Stephen Richards

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Catherine Deneuve

Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.

Steve Maraboli

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.

Sylvia Clare

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false, and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.

Zachary Levi

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Quentin Crisp

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an

John Dewey, Experience and Educa

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Kevin Spacey