Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Jerry Coyne

I'm not interested in pop art.

Billy Corgan

If you think you have trouble supporting a wife, try not supporting her.

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Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

Robert L. Schwartz

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

John Bradshaw

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

John Charles Polanyi

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

J. K. Rowling

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Ron Fournier

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Brian Eno

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

Théodore Guérin

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Joseph Bayly