If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Virginia Woolf

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Robert Kiyosaki

Men in all ways are better than they seem

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Richard Bach

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Abraham Lincoln

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

Whitney Houston

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

Glenn Danzig

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Linda Evangelista