I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Jane Austen

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Abraham Maslow

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.

Thomas E. Perez

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

SunTzu

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Marilyn Monroe