Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Benjamin Franklin

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Joseph Addison

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Julie Taymor

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

LaoTzu

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

Robert Browning

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Erykah Badu

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

William Shakespeare

For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? To the law of averages?

Gore Vidal

Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Kim Basinger