"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

“There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.”

“The American empire is hovering between life and death.”

Source : "Iran May Go Underground with Its Nuclear Activities". Memri TV, June 2006.

“Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.”

Source : Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.

“Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.”

“Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.131

“You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com

“How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.”

“When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.”