It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Victor Hugo

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

Padma Lakshmi

If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.

Orson Scott Card

All is fair in love and golf.

Proverb

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

Eliot Porter

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Chris Christie

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Danny Boyle

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Paul McCartney

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Sir Winston Churchill