Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Johann von Goethe

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Elizabeth Taylor

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Kin Hubbard

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Claude Monet

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Blaise Pascal

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Charles Bukowski

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano De Crescenzo

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Mary Chapin Carpenter