Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality. Some people pray a long time, but do not get what they are supposed to ask for, because they do not plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way. If you were to go into a bank, and stand an hour talking to the clerk, and then come out again without your cash, what would be the good of it? If I go to a bank, I pass my cheque across the counter, take up my money, and go about my business: that is the best way of praying. Ask for what you want, because the Lord has

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon,

All the Universe is full of the life of perfect creatures.

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovs

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

The reason of this separation has not come to our knowledge; but there seems to be a truth conveyed in the account of another Roman's being divorced from his wife, which may be applicable here. This person being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? was she not fair? was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them, Whether it was not new? and well made? Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me.

Plutarch, AEMILIUS PAULUS transl

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Dennis Miller

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

Lizzie Brochere

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

William Bernbach

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Jesse James Garrett

One planet, one experiment.

Edward O. Wilson

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Roseanne Barr

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham