"Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted."

“Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.”

“Let us beware of repentance without evidence.”

“When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.”

“If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear”

Source : Kobe Bryant @kobebryant, twitter.com. January 22, 2013.

“I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.”

Source : David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.1, Taylor & Francis

“I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.”

“Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“Who you are depends on who you meet.”