My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

Willie Mays

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Heather Donahue

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

Steve Albini

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.(founder of IBM)

Thomas J. Watson

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Elizabeth Taylor

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

Charles Foster Bass

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Sheena Easton

It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.

Daniel Dae Kim

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith,

It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.

William Shakespeare