Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

Aeschylus

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn’t be fair.

June Jordan

Round up the usual suspects.

the movie Casablanca, 1942

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don’t ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

Sean Connery

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

George Orwell, “1984″

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Teller

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

(attributed to) Leonardo da Vinci

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Dick Cavett

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.

Israel Zangwill