I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

Ernie Harwell

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

St. Macarius of Egypt

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Iain Banks

If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuc

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Sp

In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

Warren Farrell

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

Oliver Goldsmith

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

John Green