The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Sir John Robert Seeley

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

O. Henry Porter

Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.

Adlai Stevenson

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Richard Branson

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Michael J. Gelb

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Ronald Reagan

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

William Shakespeare

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life adn there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

Betty Smith

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Julie Burchill

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Ambrose Bierce