I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Stephen Hawking

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Jerry Costello

The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game theory.

P. Ordeshook

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

Jamie Redknapp

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Ben Nicholson

Science fiction is also a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present.

Ray Bradbury

happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if you just remember to turn on the lights

J.K. Rowling

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Patricia Cornwell

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

Charisma Carpenter

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson