The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.

Christopher Knight

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Gustav Jung

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

When we're the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

James Robertson

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Horatio Smith

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Camille Anna Paglia

We can live forever, a minute at a time.

Source Unknown

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

George Orwell

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Randy Forbes

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Thomas Chatterton

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Cofer Black

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

Abraham Lincoln