To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

David Prowse

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Alain de Botton

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

Neil Gaiman

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Octavia Butler

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

Michael Apostolius

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Blaise Pascal

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Richard Armour

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Torquato Tasso

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Charles Ives