You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. (Anais Nin)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. (Vince Lombardi)

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (H. H. Munro (Saki))

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)