The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Elizabeth Taylor

With just enough of learning to misquote.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With Cosmic Ordering you will never eat humble pie again.

Stephen Richards

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Bernadette Peters

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Melville D. Landon

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.