If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jesse Jackson

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Johnny Knoxville

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

John Henry Carver

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Imran Khan

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BC, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.

Jerry A. Coyne

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Khalil Gibran

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Juan Goytisolo

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Warren Buffett

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Barack Obama

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Ellen Barkin