Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.

Robert H. Austin

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

Channing Tatum

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Eric Hoffer

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

Camryn Manheim

“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.’”

Hunter S. Thompson

The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Mark Twain

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.

Stephen King

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Malcolm X

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Simone Weil

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Luigi Barzini