The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Source Unknown

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Janet Fitch

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Simon Newcomb

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

David Attenborough

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Hart Crane

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Aliki

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Roy L. Hunt

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

Matsuri Hino

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

Adam Schiff

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer