The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Bono

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Jodi Picoult

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

J.B.S. Haldane

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Roy H. Williams

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Frederik Pohl

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Commitment is Circumstances

Leju Thomas

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

Joseph Conrad

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Ovid

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin