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“We can change South Africa on the rugby field”
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“Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.”
Source : Sarah Churchwell (2005). “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe”, p.102, Macmillan
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“The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.”
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“Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.”
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“I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.”
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“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”
Source : "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000. 
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“Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.”
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“It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.”
