My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

Erma Bombeck

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Edmund Burke

Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Aristotle

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Sir Walter Raleigh

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Amit Ray

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

Darrell Issa

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl Buck

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Robert Goolrick