I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Len Deighton

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

Mike Judge

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Dennis Quaid

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Adam Weishaupt

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Curtis Stone

Honey, I forgot to duck.

Ronald Reagan

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis