'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

Vladimir Nabokov

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

David Brin

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

Danny Boyle

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Judy Baer

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

Steve Maraboli

All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Robertson Davies

Life is a voyage.

Victor Hugo

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Cate Blanchett

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Stanley Hauerwas

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

Anthony Anderson