Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.