When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Lord Byron

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

Barbara Walters

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Source Unknown

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

Lee Child

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Niccolo Machiavelli

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

Christopher Shays

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Harry S Truman

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.

Mark Twain

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

David Baltimore