A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Neil Gaiman

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Cher

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

Aldous Huxley

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Henry David Thoreau

An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.

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Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too!

William Paley

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Plutarch

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Anger is a short madness.

Horace

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

Anna Quindlen