And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

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

Julia Child

Thorns and stings and those such things just make stronger our angel wings.

Terri Guillemets

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

George Gilder

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Elizabeth Bowen

Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.

Ron Hall

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Lisa Unger

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Samuel E. Morison

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

Edward Gibbon

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

Peter Jurasik

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.

Kentetsu Takamori