Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Brian Aldiss

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Terry Brooks

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

Orson Scott Card

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Voltaire

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Simone Weil

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

Wm. Paul Young

Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.

John C. Maxwell

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Jimmy Breslin

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.

William Shakespeare

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Bernard Law Montgomery