Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

None loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Wilfred Owen

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Dr. C. E. Welch

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Mitch Albom

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Sergei Bubka

Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

Source Unknown

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

Phil Plait

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Rosa Parks

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

George Will