A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

If you're gonna take the audience on a life long ride, you've got to allow them to become intimate with you. If they're not intimate, they're never gonna know you.

Blackie Lawless

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Daniel Nathans

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

John von Neumann

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

Alexander Cannon

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

G. K. Chesterton

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Theodore Sturgeon

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

Joe Jonas

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill