Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self inflicted fate.

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Cynthia Ozick

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Robert G. Ingersoll

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Publilius Syrus

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Frank Langella

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Daniel H. Wilson