A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Jim Trelease

Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Terry Pratchett

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Earl Wilson

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Thomas Huxley

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

Craig Kelly

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.

Proverb

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Albert Einstein