"We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying."

“The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.”

“Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1958). “Five Japanese Love Stories”, London : Folio Societry

“There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by institutional economists, lawyers, and administrators interested in formulating and implementing public policy. It has been the tendency of these groups to work almost as though the other did not exist.”

Source : Martin Shubik, Richard Levitan (1980). “Market structure and behavior”, Harvard Univ Pr

“Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.”

“If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.”

“Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.”

Source : Percival Lowell (2006). “Mars (Large Print)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

“The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.”

“I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com