Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

Anne Sullivan Macy

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.

Nicholson Baker

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Margaret Mead

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

George Burns

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Heinz R. Pagels

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

Guy Pearce

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Vita SackvilleWest