We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words

Eileen Caddy

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

Thomas Carlyle

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Thomas Love Peacock

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

Voltaire

Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.

Mark Spitz

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

Milena Jesenska

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

Brian Harvey

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Jacob Riis

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Josef Stalin

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe