I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Garrett Hardin

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Donna Brazile

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Og Mandino

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you.

Bible, Proverbs 4: 78

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Mitt Romney

I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.

Sophie Scholl

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

Terry Pratchett

Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.

Omar Khayyam

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Eddie Vedder

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.

Ernest Hemingway

That which proves too much, proves nothing!

Proverb

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Paul Krugman