The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.

Milton Friedman

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

Jack Black

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Bob Kane

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Thomas Huxley

Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain, Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow...

William Morris

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Daryl Hall

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

J. Yahl

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

The world is a living image of God.

Tommaso Campanella