During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

Everything yields to diligence

Thomas Jefferson

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Thomas J. Peters

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

James Schuyler

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

Steve Backley

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Julian May

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

Matthew Arnold

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

Bryan Cranston

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Alfred Edward Housman

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

C.S. Lewis

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau