If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

K.W. Jeter

The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November.

Hunter S. Thompson

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Mao Zedong

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

B. C. Forbes

Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life.

Jeannette Walls

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Michael Dirda

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Marshall Field

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Johann von Goethe

Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Jared Diamond