There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.

I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . . Though the latitude's rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Availability is better than ability for God.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

time is a cure.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere; And out of old bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".

The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As he was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned heavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation, and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as we do, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water? Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.