Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Thomas Jefferson

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Lionel Trilling, Notebook entry,

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

Jack Wagner

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Rosalind Russell

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Earl Nightingale

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Cesar Chavez

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

Daniel Craig

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Steven Chu

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

Blaise Pascal