If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

Everything popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

John Dickey

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Walter Jon Williams

Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a federal law that says mothers are not allowed to laugh at vulnerable male children when they are required to wear stupid clothing to work?There should be.

A.E. Cannon

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Meister Eckhart

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Ayrton Senna

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen