Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Deepak Chopra

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

Allyson Felix

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Terry Tempest Williams

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Barack Obama

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

Ben Nicholson

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Paulo Coelho

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

Phil Jackson

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope