What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

Ursula K. LeGuin, from The Intro

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Aldrich Ames

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Immanuel Kant

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Carl Gustav Jung

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Theodore Parker

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?Often paraphrased as: Always be a little kinder than necessary.

James Barrie, The Little White B

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Fear is the most powerful adhesive we have. Fear unites, because if two people are afraid, then even as the authentic ties that may have once bound them disappear, the fear ties are as sticky as a spider's web.

Ramani Durvasula

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Yuri Milner

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

Allen West

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney