There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Jeffrey Kluger

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Donna Karan

If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.But had daylight lasted one hour longer, Stark reported later, we should have taken the whole body of them.

General John Stark, said before

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

Judith Rodriguez

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There was a beauty here, refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

John Updike

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Abraham Lincoln

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

Wernher Von Braun

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Bertrand Russell

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Robertson Davies

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Samuel Johnson