Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

If we like them, they're freedom fighters . . . If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

Carl Sagan, Contact, Part I : Th

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Charles Dickens

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

A. R. Ammons

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Richard Peck

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

Max Barry

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Will Rogers, April 14, 1935

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Gary Oldman

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

Thomas More

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

The great dividing line between success and failure is Cosmic Ordering

Stephen Richards