Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous

George Eliot

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Story Musgrave

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.The very deep did rot: O Christ!That ever this should be!Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rim

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

J. J. Abrams

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

Taylor Swift

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Jim Ramstad

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

George MacDonald

How much money is enough?

Source Unknown

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

Mike Judge

Beautiful tone, beautiful heart

Shinichi Suzuki