For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

Octavia Butler

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

Stephen Vizinczey

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

Source Unknown

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

David Dinkins

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

Jonathan Richman

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Isaac Hanson