In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.Hats can do the same thing.

You can break the walls of limitations with the power of your dreams and imagination.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

Optimism can be relearnt.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.