Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Henry A. Wallace

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

Josh Billings

Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people.

Gerhard Kocher

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Sally Ride

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Natalie Portman

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Orson Scott Card

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Thomas Carlyle