If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

John Burroughs

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Ptolemy

The harder you push, the more you are pulled.

Nike Corporation

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

Danica McKellar

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Mick Jagger

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Peter York

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oscar Wilde

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson