Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles de Secondat

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

Jerry Saltz

Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers, you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age.

Richard Feynman

Better to see the face than to hear the name.

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Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

Marcus Aurelius

[I]hr könnt nur frei sein, wenn selbst der Wunsch, die Freiheit zu suchen, euch zum Zügel wird und wenn ihr aufhört, von Freiheit als Ziel und Erfüllung zu reden.

Kahlil Gibran

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Paul Robeson

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Virgil

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them

Stephen Hawking