A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

Don Winslow

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

Bertrand Russell

Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

William Faulkner

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Neil Gaiman

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Lord Acton

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.

Maria Montessori

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.

Steve Maraboli

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Shania Twain

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Minka Kelly

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.

Thomas Paine

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson