Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Charles Francis Richter

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

Morihei Ueshiba

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

June Jordan

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.

Krisi Keley

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Ernest Hemingway

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Dylan Thomas

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women

Timothy Pina

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

Stephen Richards