It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas . . . If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you . . . On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C.S. Lewis

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Henry Ward Beecher

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Will Rogers

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

Carl Sagan

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

George Saunders

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

Sylvia Day

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.

Proverb