Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Nicole Krauss

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Sidney Altman

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Charles Fillmore

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

James C. Humes

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

Ralph Merkle

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Francois Rabelais

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

Bob Beamon

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie