No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Steven Chu

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Plato

There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

A. P. Gouthey

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!

Charles Dickens

If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

Patricia Heaton

Less is more.

Robert Browning

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Valery

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Roman Polanski

The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

Orson Scott Card