Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

Orson Scott Card

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Nicholas Ling

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

James Weldon Johnson

I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.

Albert Einstein

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him...Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay! He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

Steven Wright

Love lasteth long as the money endureth

William Caxton

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Frank Close

One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twleve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christma

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

Samuel Johnson