Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Clifford Stoll

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

Laurence Housman

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Ziglar

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Michael Burgess

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

Pam Grier

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

Norman Vincent Peale

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Barbara Bush

When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

Darrin Grimwood

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katharine Hepburn

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

Howard Gossage

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their dignity by too much familiarity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers