Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricor

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He's asked me to go dancing tomorrow--perhaps I should wear a high collar. Oh, that's vampires, isn't it? I think I am a little giddy. (After meeting Mr. Markham V. Reynolds, Jr.)

Mary Ann Shaffer

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Robert B. Laughlin

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Albert Camus

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

Patti Davis

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

Seve Ballesteros

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

John Berger

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Woody Allen

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Jeff Bridges