Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

William Butler Yeats

Humor is reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Marlee Matlin

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because whatever one's self-criticisms, one secretly really believes that one's way of being is okay and probably the only correct one. They are alright as they are, and all problems are caused by other people's selfishness, unfairness, and by the external world.

David R. Hawkins

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Josiah Royce

Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million

Mark Twain

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

Jon Hamm

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Good clothes open all doors.

Thomas Fuller

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning.

Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Pea