Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Chili Davis

One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF.

Brian Aldiss

What you refer to as your

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Fr, Essays on Political Economy

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Mary Augusta Ward

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

Dick Morris

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Frances Cornford

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

Thomas Merton

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan