That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

Jack Abramoff

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Michael Pollan

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

Jane Austen

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene

Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.

Proverb

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

William Shakespeare

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

William Hazlitt

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Dalai Lama XIV

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Timothy Radcliffe

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Richard Dawkins