"A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle."

“I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Rida’s Right Round, because I could rap, which I’ve never really done before.”

“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria

“I believe in no final solutions.”

“I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.”

“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press

“I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.”

“I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.”