Present n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose Bierce
Though science can cause problems it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
Isaac Asimov
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama
When you look into an abyss the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Progress is not an illusion it happens but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
