There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.

Richard Feynman

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

Bernard Mandeville

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

Source Unknown

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Giovanni Ribisi

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Sir Matthew Hale

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Brian Eno

Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ernest Dimnet

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Henry David Thoreau

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning