"MIT was after me you know, wanted me to rule the world for them." - Scientist (Help)

"I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux." - Bertrand Russel

"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.... It may be very hard to define mathematical beauty, but that is just as true of beauty of any kind -- we may not know quite what we mean by a beautiful poem, but that does not prevent us from recognizing one when we read it." - G. H. Hardy

"Hearts are depositories of secrets; lips are their locks, and tongues are their keys."

"Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it." - General Peter Schoomaker

"H is for hurrry, E is for urgent, L is for love me, and P is for please." - Lord Admiral Fred (The Yellow Submarine)

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao Tzu

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"

"There are in the world two powers - the sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword." - Napoleon

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier, because you lived. This is to be a success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M. C. Escher

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Richard Bach

"The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination -- stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern -- of which I am a part -- perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?" - Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)

"The bottom line is that when the final curtain drops the only things we truly regret are the things we did not do." - Clive Cussler

"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one." - Elbert Hubbard

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them" - Plato

"Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than sleeping in a garage over night would make a Chevrolet out of you"

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must" - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs and ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'commited'."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

"No sane man will dance." - Cicero

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - last words of Pancho Villa

e-i-e-i-o is actually a gross misspelling of the word "farm"

"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

"I couldn't hit a wall with a six-gun, but I can twirl one. It looks good." - John Wayne

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

The ninety and nine are with dreams content;
But the hope of a world made new
Is the hundredth man who is grimly bent
On making that dream come true

"There is nothing two people can't do if one of them is God."

"Happiness is like jam - you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself."

James 3:17 "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hipocrisy."

"You do not have to be in a key position to open the door to opportunity."

"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth" - Charles Luckman

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard

"Ignorance will take you to a lot more interesting places than knowledge."

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein

Hedwig Born to Albert Einstein
"Do you believe that everything can be expressed scientifically?" Einstein: "Yes, it would be possible, but it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning-- as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

Love is like an hourglass...the heart fills up, as the brain empties.