It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something - and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Harold Coffin, quoted in The Pet

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Jeffrey Kluger

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Desmond Tutu

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Meghan O'Rourke

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Philip K. Dick

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Dejan Stojanovic

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Adam Weishaupt

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

Cameron Diaz

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden Econ

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs