The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

John Green

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be

Bertrand Russell

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Sir Theodore Martin, Said at rea

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Kahlil Gibran

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. (J.)

Paulo Coelho

In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.

Theodore Tronchin

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

[A] disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Paulo Coelho

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't dance on a volcano.

Proverb