The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Christopher Hitchens

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

Dane Cook

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Mark Twain

It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.

William Shakespeare

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Nicholas Kristof

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

Rodney Dangerfield

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Mikhail Bakunin

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?

Oliver Sacks

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Peter Singer

Language is the pedigree of nations.

Johnson

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James A. Baldwin

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais