Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

Les Brown

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

Louis L. Mann

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Octavia Butler

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Michael Leboeuf

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

Elizabeth Reaser