All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Bob Hope

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Ronald Reagan

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann von Goethe

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

Stephen Hunter

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

Jacqueline Carey

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

Rick Perry

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentallywalk through into another dimension.

Steven Wright