Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

George Orwell

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Lauren Conrad

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Billy Graham

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Les Brown

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

Andrew Bird

A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

Orson Scott Card

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Ritchie

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

William Shakespeare

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Carl Rogers