Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Huxley

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Katharine Hepburn

As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

Chris Van Hollen

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Virginia Woolf

There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.

Terry Pratchett

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help

Miss Manners

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -- and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Wernher Von Braun