There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Charles Vest

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

David Bowie

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Friedrich von Schiller

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

Tea Leoni

He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

Anita Diamant

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

Islom Karimov

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

David Viscott

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara de Angelis

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Albert Einstein

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Proverb

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Edward Hoagland

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Gerrit Smith