God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Dalai Lama

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

David Brin

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Susan Taylor

Good writing is clear thinking made visible.

Bill Wheeler

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

Theodore Roosevelt

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Mark Haddon

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.

Orville Wright