(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.

Dave Chappelle

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

Jeffrey Donovan

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

John Charles Polanyi

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

Being gifted needs courage.

Georg Brandes

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

H. G. Wells

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

How would your life change if your actions did all the talking and all you used your mouth for was to say please and thank you?

Steve Maraboli

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Jodi Picoult

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

John Green