I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past...

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan, “Contact”

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in “The Friends of Voltaire”, 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)

Just because you love someone doesn?t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower, A speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 14, 1957

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all. William Hung, 2004 American Idol Auditions

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary