the sight of me is good for sore eyes

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

T. Boone Pickens

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Mason Cooley

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

Beth Ditto

Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird?

Source Unknown

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

John Cleese

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

G. K. Chesterton

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Hilary Rosen

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

Sydney Brenner