Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Barbara Jordan

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Carl Sagan

What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.

Dia Reeves

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Henry Miller

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

Leon Panetta

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

Bryan Cranston

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

K. Eric Drexler

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Bruce Lee

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter