The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Cyndi Lauper

I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.

Randy Moss

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

Edwin Powell Hubble

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born?Where is your home?Where are you going?What are you doing?Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adv

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Taylor Caldwell

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

Kevin Rudd

When we're the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

James Robertson

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato