The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Lillian Hellman

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

William Penn

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

E. M. Forster

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

Nigel Rees

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Bobby Darin

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

J. C. (James Cash) Penney

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

Bill Richardson