I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

Nadia Giosia

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Ryan White

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Frank Herbert

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Mitt Romney

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Laura Linney

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

Democritus

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Henry Petroski

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Neil Gaiman

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Harold Ramis

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Thomas Carlyle