"I use the pen, because the pen is mightier than the sword. But you always must keep a sword handy, for when the pen fails."
- James Nichols.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates.

"Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there."
- Dr Wernher von Braun.

"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth."
- Archimedes.

"I came here to say that I do not recognise anyone's right to one minute of my life, nor to any part of my energy nor to any achievement of mine, no matter who makes the claim."
- Howard Roark (Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead')