"I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher."

“There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.”

“I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.”

“Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'”

Source : "Eat Your Words: Anthony Bourdain on Being Wrong". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 31, 2010.

“Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.”

Source : Inaugural lecture for his professorship of mathematical physics at the University of Utrecht, 1913.

“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.”

“Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.”

“I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.”

“Thank God for the theater.”