The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive -- a miracle.' And so I keep on pushing.

JacquesYves Cousteau, Said at ag

Today is just a good day in disguise.

Paul Venghaus

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

George Herbert

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

Santosh Kalwar

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Mehmet Murat ildan

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.

Abraham Lincoln

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Pharrell Williams

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Oscar Wilde

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Stephen King

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson