The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Screw your courage to the sticking-place

William Shakespeare

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

Ian Somerhalder

I have very little regard for consensus if it blinds you to the truth.

Harry Belafonte

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Helen Rowland

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn