Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place

Vince Lombardi

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Anjelica Huston

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Janet Reno

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

Observers should all measure the same speed of light, no matter how they are moving.

Albert Einstein

Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all powerful. All the scholastic subtleties have neither added anything to nor subtracted anything from the acuteness of this paradox.

Albert Camus

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Bowyer Bell

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Jeremy Rifkin