I feel more mature than most people my age.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

Marina Sirtis

Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Win or lose, playing at all is winning.

Wolfgang Nording

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

Lech Walesa

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

Paul Davies

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

John Yoo

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Max Lerner

He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

William Hazlitt

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Conor Oberst

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin