Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

Paulo Coelho

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

John C. Ransom

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Anthony Robbins

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Give light and people will find their own way.

Source Unknown

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Aneurin Bevan

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Scarlett Thomas