For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Arthur W. Newcomb

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ron Lewis

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

E. M. Cioran

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Crisp

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

Deborah M. Gordon

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Izabella Scorupco

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein