By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Alexander Pope

I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

Demetri Martin

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Tom Glazer

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Dar Williams

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

J.K. Rowling

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert Kennedy

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe