After doing five selfies with people this morning before 8 am on my morning run I've come to the conclusion that the autograph is dead.

~ Shane Warne, forme Australian cricketer

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

~ Maya Angelou ( 1928 - 2014 )

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. 

~ Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist (b. 1954) 

Never cut what you can untie. 

~ Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) 

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~ Alan Watts

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930) 

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. 

~ Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744) 

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. 

~ John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873) 

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. 

~ Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965) 

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. 

~ Studs Terkel, author and broadcaster (1912-2008) 

Your vision becomes clear when you look inside your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. 

~ Carl Jung

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism. 

~ Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978) 

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

~  Erica Jong 

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. 

~ Katharine Hepburn, actress (1907-2003) 

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. 

~ Charles Simic, poet (b. 1938) 

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. 

~ Thomas Pynchon, writer (b. 1937) 

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. 

~ Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) 

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. 

~ Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939) 

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

~ Karl A. Menninger

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. 

~ Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (1903-1998) 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 

~ Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719)