No man was ever great by imitation.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

C.S. Lewis

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Oprah Winfrey

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Albert Einstein

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Plato

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

Doug Hoffman

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

John R. Tunis

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Mary Renault

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Bill Nighy

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

Christina Perri

Culture, with us, ends in headache

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Fred Saberhagen