"We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned."

“Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.”

Source : "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.

“In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.”

“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”

“I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]”

“In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.”

“The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.”

“When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.”

“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

Source : "The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630". Book by Marie Boas Hall, p. 117, April 2, 2013.