[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

Thomas Jefferson

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Jeffrey Archer

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Land of Memory the time is always .In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick... but their hands never move.There is an Unfound Door(O lost)and memory is the key which opens it.

Stephen King

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

Portia de Rossi

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity Sc

Time itself comes in drops.

William James