"Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character."

“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.639, Candlewick Press

“The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.”

Source : Larry Laudan (1978). “Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth”, p.109, Univ of California Press

“The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.”

“Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.”

“There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.”

“Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.”

“But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.”

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

“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.”