We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

Terry Pratchett

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Alan Cohen

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I do the gardening.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

You can't change what you don't understand.

Orson Scott Card

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

J. Donald Walters

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann von Goethe

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Joseph Joubert

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Amy Lowell

How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have.

Stephen Richards