It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Ralph Archbold

I hear you jeering. Pfui. Those of you who know my work only from A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE may not be aware that I was once considered the most romantic science fiction writer of the 70s, back when I was doing my Thousand Worlds stuff.

George R. R. Martin

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Peace Pilgrim

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Daniel Nathans

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

Libba Bray

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.

Carroll Quigley

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Susan Sontag