It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Terry Pratchett

The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends Toward Justice

Martin Luther King Jr.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

H. G. Bissinger

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

Jonas Salk

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

Source Unknown

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Martin Oppenheimer

An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people

Jack Welch

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C.S. Lewis, attributed