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

Never regret anything that once made you happy.

Ada

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Robert Baden-Powell

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Cat Stevens

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

Pat Conroy

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Thomas Jefferson

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy (9 November 1991) by Richard L. Garwin

Edwin H. Land

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Robert Frost

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Charles Schumer

To earn more, you must learn more.

Brian Tracy