Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Respect all. Fear none.

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.