[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.

when you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

I'm a real pawn-shopper.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.

One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.