Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

Christopher Hitchens

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Doris Lessing

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

Jennifer Garner

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Sydney Pollack

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

George Bernard Shaw

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

Ezra Pound

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

George Eliot

To generous souls every task is noble.

Euripides

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Daniel H. Wilson