Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Jodi Picoult

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

H. P. Lovecraft

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

Laurel Clark

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

Mariah Carey

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

James Joyce

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

James A. Froude

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Henry David Thoreau

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

David Mamet

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Vladimir Lenin