There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Thomas Hardy

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap

Chet Raymo

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Thomas Carlyle

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Henry David Thoreau

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Thomas Fuller

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

Steven Spielberg

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

Angela Ruggiero

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Naomi Wolf