"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."

“It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...”

Source : Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”

“Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.”

“Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.”

Source : Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume (2001). “Information Anxiety 2”, Que Pub

“The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.”

“Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.”

Source : "Kara Swisher discusses life, D: All Things Digital". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

“Technically, I'm a New Yorker.”

“It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.”