Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

I touch the future. I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others

Henry David Thoreau

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Clive Barker

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Kevin J. Anderson

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Robin Yount

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.

Marco Rubio

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Edgar A. Guest

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Oscar Wilde