To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

Jodi Picoult

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

David Herbert Lawrence

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

Steven Hatfill

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Rachel Griffiths

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Kurt Vonnegut

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Mark Twain

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Ayn Rand

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

John Henry Carver