It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

Percival Lowell

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Regina Brett

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

Christie Hefner

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Lewis Thomas

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Walter Lippmann

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Noomi Rapace

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

Terry Pratchett

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

P.C. Hodgell

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

Sonya Hartnett

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie