There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, I'm terrible at travel.

Johnny Vegas

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

Emma Thompson

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Marilyn Hacker

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event.

Don DeLillo

Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Ronald Reagan

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.

J.E. Mathewson

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Robert Lindner

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

Source Unknown

You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus.

Sam Kean