A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

Ally Condie

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

Virginia Woolf

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

David Hume

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

John W. Gardner

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

Ricky Schroder

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

Aberjhani

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Malcolm Forbes

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Jack

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Bill Frist

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Kurt Vonnegut

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Johann von Goethe