You don't run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you're good enough.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Allan Sherman

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Robert Collier

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Audre Lorde

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

Calvin Johnson

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Mason Cooley

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Ed Markey

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Sir Henry Taylor

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford