Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Richard Leakey

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Muhammad Ali

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Norman Douglas

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Willie Shoemaker

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Charlie Chaplin

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein, from Time En

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Phil McGraw

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Sir Winston Churchill

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keys

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Carroll O'Connor