You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Gail Porter

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.

Richard Holmes

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Henry Miller

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

Dan Brown

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Denis Waitley

I love awards, especially if I get them.

Ben Gazzara

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler