America is too great for small dreams.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacr

Francois Fenelon

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

Emilie Cady

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Miranda Richardson

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Alain Prost

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jessica Savitch

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

James Q. Wilson

It is not their love for men but the impotence of their love for men which hinders the Christians of today from burning us

Friedrich Nietzsche

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Rita Dove