My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Tom Perrotta

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

Sri Aurobindo

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

Elliot Richardson

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Samuel Johnson

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everything starts as somebody's day dream.

Larry Niven

If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.

Larry Page

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.

Lee Myung-bak

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Christopher Hitchens

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

G. W. F. Hegel