Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Maynard James Keenan

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Daniel Kahneman

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

Raymond Chandler

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

Steven J. Carroll

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Lazarus Long

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Proverb

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Ted Turner

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

Benny Bellamacina