Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

Paul Walker

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Pierre de Coubertin

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Ruth Handler

Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.

Peter J. Carroll

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Gabriel Marcel

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

John Singer Sargent

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Carl Sagan

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Lana Turner

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Jarod Kintz

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Robin Williams

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Dorothy Parker