Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

A town loved with bitter love.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!