I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

Teddy Thompson

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Henrik Ibsen

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Johann von Goethe

Those who do not think bout the future cannot have one.

Michael J. Kami

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

Friedrich von Schiller

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

Chris O'Donnell

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

Logan P. Smith

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Kim Dong Hwa

The problem is not Republican principals. The problem is unprincipled Republicans.

Alfonzo Rachel