The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Lawrence Durrell

It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

Carli Lloyd

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Jared Leto

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Marlo Thomas

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

Bhagavad Gita

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Maria Montessori

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Philip Roth

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Richard Brautigan

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Pico Iyer