People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar R. Fiedler

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Laura Riding

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

John Christopher

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Placido Domingo

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Berg

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Jules Ellinger

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

John Ruskin

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater