Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Manmohan Singh

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Natalie Portman

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements;... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Alfred North Whitehead

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Peter Hammill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Sir Winston Churchill

We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing.

C.S. Lewis

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

Clive Barker

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Charles Babbage

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes