"Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!"

“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”

“That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children, and I wouldn't even think of putting my hand in somebody's pocket or doing something stupid now.”

“I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God and I don't believe he makes mistakes, so I believe that being gay is not a sin and in fact it's how you're made.”

Source : "Joy Behar's Inner Rosie: Conservative Pols Who 'Use' Christianity Have 'Same Syndrome' as 9/11 Terrorists". Interview with Joy Behar, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2011.

“The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.”