There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am.

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

I am myself and I am here.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.