Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Richard Pryor

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

Cheryl Ladd

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Giacomo Casanova

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Isaac Watts

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

LaoTzu

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Sir Isaac Newton

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the resistless day, And count it fair.

Amelia Earhart

American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires gathered them into cylindrical steel containers and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though German fighters came up again made everything and everybody as good as new. When the bombers got back to their base the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America where factories were operating night and day dismantling the cylinders separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground to hide them cleverly so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

Kurt Vonnegut

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

Mark Twain

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli