Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

A scientist has the additional responsibility that comes with being a specialist: explaining science to the public, advising of its usefulness and benefits, and warning of its dangers and disadvantages. This is the responsibility of any specialist.

Larkin Kerwin

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Oliver Goldsmith

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

Stephen King

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Paulo Coelho

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Lee Scott

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Billie Jean King