But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Terry Pratchett

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

William Beebe

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Jerry Rubin

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Immanuel Kant

It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.

Source Unknown

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Lord Burleigh

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Michael Behe

The First [Friend] is the alter ego, the man who first reveals to you that you are not alone in the world by turning out (beyond hope) to share all your most secret delights. There is nothing to be overcome in making him your friend; he and you join like raindrops on a window. But the Second Friend is the man who disagrees with you about everything. He is not so much the alter ego as the antiself. Of course he shares your interests; otherwise he would not become your friend at all. But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it. How can he be so nearly right and yet, invariably, just not right? He is as fascinating (and infuriating) as a woman. When you set out to correct his heresies, you will find that he forsooth to correct yours! And then you go at it, hammer and tongs, far into the night, night after night, or walking through fine country that neither gives a glance to, each learning the weight of the other's punches, and often more like mutually respectful enemies than friends. Actually (though it never seems so at the time) you modify one another's thought; out of this perpetual dogfight a community of mind and a deep affection emerge.

C.S. Lewis

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Franklin P. Jones

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

George Bernard Shaw