It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Sam Ervin

Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare

[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Charles Dickens

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Christopher Hitchens

I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.

Jessica Lynch

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

Abraham Lincoln

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Diane Ackerman

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Bob Hayes

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

David Ansen

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Denzel Washington

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

Jerry Garcia

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson