Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.