When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
-Hunter S. Thompson

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
-Jean Rostand

Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
- Solomon Short

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier

Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils.

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
- Probably not Arthur C. Clarke