Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Elie Wiesel

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Edward Gibbon

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.

Garrison Keillor

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Charles de Lint

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

Julianna Margulies

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Alexander Payne

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Abdul Kalam

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

Stephen Hawking