The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.

In the middle of the journey of our lifeI found myself astray in a dark woodwhere the straight road had been lost sight of.

Dante Alighieri, La Commedia Div

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Walter Jon Williams

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Paulo Coelho

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.

Matthew Scully, Our companions i

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Will Cuppy

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

Isaac Asimov

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Thomas Fuller

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

Gordon H. Clark

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Jowett