To be prepared is half the victory.

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

Terry Pratchett

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.... rust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Mary Schmich

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Junius

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Maury Amsterdam

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Ron Lewis

All beauty is sad. For it fades.

David Gemmell

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

Paul Davies

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell