In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

There is not grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.

Benjamin Franklin

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

Abu Bakar Bashir

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Proverb

Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance.

Source Unknown

My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.

Aldous Huxley

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Samuel Butler

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Curt Siodmak

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

Albert Camus