There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

Roman Payne

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.

John Green

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Stephen Jay Gould

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Fidel Castro

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

John Galsworthy

Let today be the day you are no longer intimidated by the monumental size of the change you want, but instead be empowered by your ability to make that change one step at a time.

Steve Maraboli

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

Ronald Reagan

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.

Earl Warren

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.

George Crook