Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Billy Graham

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons &amp Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Lev Grossman

No one will do it for you.

Ben Stein

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

Robert Orben

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Frederik Pohl

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.

Sean Paul

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Maya Angelou

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Frederick Smith

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

George McGovern

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Grover Cleveland