I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

George Eliot

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,with its hopes and invitations,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Hjalmar Branting

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

Michael Kimmel

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Stana Katic

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Wally Lamb

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

Rocco DiSpirito

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Robert Bresson

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

Robert B. Laughlin

Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work.

Katie Kacvinsky