On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Thomas Aquinas

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Doug Coupland

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Lauryn Hill

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Francis Bacon

Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.

Sophie Segur

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Utada Hikaru

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

Greg LeMond

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Angelina Jolie

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes