Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

J. M. Coetzee

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Charles Babbage

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

Ella Maillart

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

John Ruskin

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Evelyn Waugh

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Billy Graham

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Gaylord Nelson

The fact is he made a prodigious blunder in commencing the attack, and now his only chance is to be silent and let people forget the exposure. I do not believe that in the whole history of science there is a case of any man of reputation getting himself into such a contemptible position.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Elias Canetti