There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.

Authenticity is a powerful force. Don't ruin it with an illusion.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.