To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Marilyn vos Savant

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen

Ambrose Bierce

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Josef Stalin

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Alice Walker

All that you are is all around you.

Stephen Richards

También en su mundo distante, más distante que la propia luna, la música era capaz de penetrar y hacer milagros.

Paulo Coelho

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Frank Zappa

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Jeffrey Kluger

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

Cassandra Clare

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Ron Paul