Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

Sebastian Vettel

Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come from the heavens, it doesn't come from the beyond, it doesn't come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. It shows very well - that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Abraham Lincoln

We must either outlive our friends you know, or our friends must outlive us; and I see no man that would hesitate about the choice

Samuel Johnson

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Edmund Burke

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Matthew Arnold

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Steven Weinberg

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas C. Haliburton

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Joe Simmons

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges...

Herman Melville

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Marlon Brando