Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

Bill Owens

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Fred Rogers

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Mary Cheney

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

Steve Pavlina

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Sergei Bubka

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

Abbe Pierre

Genius Borrows nobly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold MacMillan

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke