O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Aldous Huxley

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Leon Trotsky

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Tom Hanks

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Anna Neagle

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

Warren Farrell

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.

Leo Tolstoy

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee