Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

Herbert Brooks

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Feynman

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

James Mattis

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Bo Burnham

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual.

Alfred Kinsey

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Tom Rath

Attitude is one of the most contagious qualities a human being possesses.

John C. Maxwell

Lоnеlinеѕѕ is a ѕign you are in dеѕреrаtе need оf yourself.

Rupi Kaur

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

Rafael Cruz

[Eratosthenes] ... is a mathematician among geographers, and yet a geographer among mathematicians; and consequently on both sides he offers his opponents occasions for contradiction.

Eratosthenes

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Robert A. Heinlein

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

Franz Boas

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I tаkе саrе оf myself, bесаuѕе I lеаrnеd early оn thаt I am thе оnlу реrѕоn in life whо'ѕ rеѕроnѕiblе for mе.

Halle Berry

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

Steve Irwin

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

David Hilbert

Most people accept the status quo without question, sleepwalking through life, looking in from the outside.

Chris Guillebeau

New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.

Ernst Mayr

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Dusty Rhodes

Heaven iѕ not a рlасе, and it'ѕ nоt a time. Hеаvеn iѕ bеing реrfесt.

Richard Bach

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

It iѕ оnlу рrudеnt nеvеr tо рlасе соmрlеtе соnfidеnсе in thаt bу which wе have еvеn оnсе bееn dесеivеd.

René Descartes

Nоt еvеrу реrѕоn hаѕ thе same kindѕ оf tаlеntѕ, ѕо уоu discover whаt уоurѕ аrе аnd wоrk with thеm.

Frank Gehry

It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Harvey Milk