For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

Raymond Chandler

The God we've been praying to is deaf to our words and only responds to our actions.

Steve Maraboli

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Lou Gerstner

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

Ann Druyan

At the core of who we are is the roots of those that have influenced our lives the most and the impact of what they have exposed us to is always there and when the foundation is laid with love and commitment, our lives at some point will reflect that of which we have been taught.

Aja Graydon

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Jack Kevorkian

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Simone Weil

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James Thurber

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Michael Crichton

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Dame Edith Sitwell