Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Mary McCarthy

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Mary McCarthy

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Denis Waitley

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

Eric Stoltz

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

M. Scott Peck

Another travel agent told me I could spend 7 nights in Hawaii...No days..just nights.

Rodney Dangerfield