The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

Mason Cooley

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Ricki Lake

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

Gerald R. Ford

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Nanette Newman

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Madeleine Albright

If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness.

Matthew Kelly

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Sigourney Weaver

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Don Alan Pennebaker