Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF.

Brian Aldiss

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

W. C. Fields

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Lauren Ambrose

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Alan Perlis

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Mike Leigh

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

Sally Ride

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Lydia Maria Child

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Baltasar Gracian

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

Stephen King

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Gordon Ramsay