It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

William Penn

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

Finagle

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracian

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

T. Boone Pickens

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Ed Foreman

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Kate Bosworth

Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Billy Sherwood

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

Michael Lewis

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson