Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Antonio Gramsci

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Leslie Fiedler

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Isaac Asimov

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Will Durant

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

Mindy Kaling

Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.

Ron Peterson

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Julie Burchill