Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

The sunshine of thine eyes, (O still celestial beam!) Whatever it touches it fills With the life of its lambent gleam. The sunshine of thine eyes, Oh, let it fall on me! Though I be but a mote of the air, I could turn to gold for thee.

George Parsons Lathrop

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

Cameron Conaway

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

Shakira

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

Samuel L. Jackson

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Judy Collins

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Greg Egan

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Douglas Everett

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Kenny Chesney

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

John Doolittle