Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Joe Biden

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

Toni Morrison

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Johann von Goethe

And I have to point out that government doesn't tax to get the money it needs, government always needs the money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

David Mamet

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Martin Fleischmann

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Julius Boros

Chorus : Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

Aristophanes

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Simon Wiesenthal

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Clive James