I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Robert G. Ingersoll

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

Michael Morpurgo

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.

Scottish Proverb

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Hesiod, Works and Days

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

Michael Denton

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.

Ernest Hemingway