No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

Mary Decker Slaney

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

Steve Maraboli

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

Jean Webster

Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.

Kelsang Gyatso

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gaius C. Gallus

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Christopher Hitchens

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance

Mark Twain

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Paul Getty