Science rules!

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

When a war breaks out, people say: It's too stupid; it can't last long. But though the war may well be too stupid, that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Albert Camus

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, SelfRelianc

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.

David Herbert Lawrence

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

David Puttnam

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

Amber Tamblyn

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

Ai Weiwei

A little integrity is better than any career

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld