My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Barney Oliver

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Steven Spielberg

People are disposable.

Terina Burr

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,To make that thousand up a million.Treble that million, and when that is done,Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.drawing inspiration from Catullus

Robert Herrick, Hesperides

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Mencius

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Maurice Blanchot

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

Bowen Baxter

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

Lee Myung-bak

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Robert Browning

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Italian Proverb