I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

Justin Halpern

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Jane Austen

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

In my end is my beginning.

Mary Stuart

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Dean Inge

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

Carl Sagan

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Michael Porter

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Orson Scott Card

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

Proverb