I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

C. JoyBell C.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Albert Einstein

The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

Roucher

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Jason Mraz

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return...

George Eliot

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!

Rupert Holmes

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Blaise Pascal