Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intima

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

Thomas Carlyle

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

Cheryl Hines

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

Henry David Thoreau

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

Virginia Woolf

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Franz Grillparzer

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.

Emily Dickinson, Letter in Lette

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Lana Turner