Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Plomer

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Dickens

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Georges Braque

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

V. S. Naipaul

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

Richard Le Gallienne

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.

Ernest Hemingway

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Lev Grossman

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Jada Pinkett Smith

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

Steve Maraboli

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Natalie Portman

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

Guy Burgess