... politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Tom Morris

The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry.

Frank Huguenard

Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-fixed Snowflake; that's fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing's life.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres,And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,And are setting the world by the ears!

Maria Weston Chapman, The Times

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

Busy Philipps

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

J. D. Salinger

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

Ansel Adams

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Alanis Morissette

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Aristotle

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

Norman Mailer