"Little things that run the world."

“Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.”

“You can never have too much butter.”

“For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.”

“Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)”

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

“We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.”

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”

Source : Bill Nye (2015). “Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World”, p.370, St. Martin's Press

“There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.”