When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

Stephen Hawking

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Robert Collier

Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

Ambrose Bierce

But all knowledge has to be won – like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Charles H. Parkhurst

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Anne Stevenson

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

C.S. Lewis

What is now proved was only once imagined.

William Blake

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Mark Twain