When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

George Bernard Shaw

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Kemal Ataturk

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John F. Kennedy

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Jacqueline Cochran

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

Herschel Walker

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Ayn Rand

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

David Sedaris