God help those who do not help themselves. (Wilson Mizner)
A good home must be made, not bought. (Joyce Maynard)
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. (Albert Einstein)
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. (Mignon McLaughlin)
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. (Bertrand Russell)
Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness. (Geoffrey Neighor)
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. (Neil Gershenfeld)
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. (Charles De Gaulle)
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. (Stella Benson)
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. (George Santayana)
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny. (Tryon Edwards)
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. (Piero Ferrucci)
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. (Paul Valery)
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. (Johann von Goethe)
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars. (Martin Luther)
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. (John A. Wheeler)
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. (Edith Wharton)