We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Abraham Pais

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

Voltaire

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Phil Crosby

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Roy Lichtenstein

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Jasper Fforde

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Christiaan Barnard

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Anne McCaffrey