A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

Jodi Picoult

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Julian Assange

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Lewis Thomas

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.

Paul Ambroise Valery

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Michael Palin

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

Jonathan Swift

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

Source Unknown

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Victor Borge

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan