Some of My Favorite Quotes

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein, when asked to explain the radio

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." Abraham Lincoln

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth." Leo Tolstoy

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Kurt Vonnegut

"Be fanatics. When it comes to being, doing, and dreaming the best, be maniacs." A.M. Rosenthal

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
And there comes a time when one must take
a position that is neither safe, nor politic,
nor popular, but one must take it because
one's conscience tells one that it is right."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction." -- Oscar Wilde