My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

David Brin

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Henry Miller

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Richard M. DeVos

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Ludwig von Mises

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

Valentina Tereshkova

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

Terry Pratchett

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

William Hazlitt

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Source Unknown

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Karl Marx

I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

Robert Benchley