A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Agatha Christie

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better -- and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

Hubert Humphrey

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Annie Leibovitz

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

James R. Cook

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

Daniel H. Wilson

'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

Richard Henry Horne

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.The people down here just ate that up!

Kurt Vonnegut