If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is. I ask no comfort, Taran replied, but the truth, be it harsh or happy.

Lloyd Alexander

It'a an immense joy to be here today. I have received from millions of male and female Brazilians the most important mission of my life. This fact, beyond myself, is a demonstration of the democratic development of our country because for the first time a woman will rule Brazil.

Dilma Rousseff

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Steve Jobs

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

Jack Kilby

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.

Shannon L. Alder

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Joseph De Maistre

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laurel Lee

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

Hermann Bahr

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Francis Bacon

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Herbert Spencer