A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Ray Bradbury

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Ernie Banks

Love to me is a feeling, to have universal love you have to always feel love no matter what.

James Dye

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Johann von Goethe

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Cornelia Funke

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Benjamin Franklin

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Samuel Johnson

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Anthony Storr

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Chris Robinson

Be good, or be good at it.

Lil Wayne

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ogden Nash