I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

Ally Carter

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

Rachel McAdams

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Harvey Fierstein

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

Leo Tolstoy

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

David Mitchell

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin