"Every time I see an adult riding a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race" —H. G. Wells
"In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever." —Farrah Fawcett
"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." — Henry David Thoreau
"When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London." —Bette Midler
"And for the first time in their existence, their mean, unhappy lives became happy and meaningful because of one simple phrase... LOVE." —The Beatles, Yellow Submarine
“To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.” — Joseph Wood Crutch, ‘The Desert Year’
"I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and It's been really nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male that has gotten away with a lot of stuff" — Iggy Pop
“See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.” —Joel Osteen
"I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day... I got in." —Kevin Flynn
“Anger makes you stupid. Stupid gets you killed.” —Michonne, Character, ‘The Walking Dead’
“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarreling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and respect for the old — somebody who takes good care of things and of people.” —Connie Nielsen
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.” —Werner Herzog
“Funny, hip and super cool — he can handle any situation... even being snatched away by fairies!” —Barbie
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." — Leonardo Da Vinci
“If NYC is the ‘city that never sleeps,’ then San Francisco is the “city that day-drinks in the park, grabs a burrito on the way home and passes out.” —@KarlTheFog
“I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I’m not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it’s not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.” —Damon Albarn
“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to — letting a person be what he really is.” —Jim Morrison
“All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.” —Napoléon Bonaparte
“Negativity & Hulkamania — 2 things that don’t go together, brother.” —Hulk Hogan
“For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive — and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.” —Sylvia Earle
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandons himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.” —Marguerite Yourcenar, ‘Memoirs of Hadrian’
“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.” —Steve Irwin
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey
“In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You are in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.” —Robert M. Pirsig, ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’