"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"...There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have."
Robin Hobb
"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums."
Michael J. Fox
"Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment..."
Primo Levi
"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."
Bryant McGill
"There are many intelligent beings in the Universe. Most of them are owned by cats."
Old Polish Proverb
"We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie."
A. Lee Martinez
"It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame."
Leigh Bardugo
"Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless… but you’re not worthless, you’re unappreciated."
Anonymous
"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
Edmund Burke
"The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem."
R.F. Georgy
"Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech."
Somali K Chakrabarti
"The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man."
Pat Conroy
"Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us."
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