Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

Terry Pratchett

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Carrie Brownstein

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Ram Dass

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Peter Conrad

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Barbra Streisand

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Jean Rostand

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Billie Eilish