Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

My mom is a sculptress.

P. J. Harvey

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Marvin Minsky

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.

Joshua Emmet

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.

Christopher Hitchens

Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles

May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace.

Anon.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Harvey S. Firestone

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmyer

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Francoise Sagan