The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.