It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

Joseph Campbell

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Kevin J. Anderson

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Jacob Bronowski

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Sonya Hartnett

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Eddie Izzard

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Gisele Bundchen

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.

Kurt Vonnegut