A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Stephen Jay Gould

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Jeff Cooper

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

Whatever limits us, we call Fate

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Ronald Reagan

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Terry Pratchett

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Bertrand Russell

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Bryant H. McGill

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Alexander Hamilton

You can't trust the internet.

Nicolette Sheridan