When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Leonardo da Vinci

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

Fidel Castro, "The Economist", A

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

Cindy Crawford

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Frank A. Clark

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

Salman Rushdie

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Charles Simmons

We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.'

Ronald Reagan

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Wendell Phillips

Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Eggleston