We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Horton Cooley

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

John Hodgman

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich.

Paul Celan

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Abbi Glines

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

Holly Johnson

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Eddie Izzard

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Bertrand Russell