"A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans."

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

“The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.”

Source : "Edward Kennedy, Frederick Smith, P.X. Kelley, Roundtable". Fox News Sunday, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 17, 2006.

“Facing your fears robs them of their power.”

“It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.”

“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”

“You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.”

“Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.”