Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

How short life is for fools.

Orson Scott Card

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Liz Phair

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Burt Rutan

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

John Bentham

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Hamlin Garland

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Alfred Hitchcock

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Jack Abramoff

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda