However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

Junipero Serra

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mary Douglas

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

Andrea Jung

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Caroline Kennedy

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

George Bernard Shaw

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Napoleon Hill

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.

Richard Holmes

I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

Christopher Walken

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

William Wordsworth

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Denis Diderot