You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein, Reflection on th

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Henry David Thoreau

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Leo Tolstoy

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Bodhidharma

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Frank B. Kellogg

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Mark Twain

He who has love in his breast has ever the spurs at his flanks.

Bernardo Dovizi

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack