"Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes."

“Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.”

“I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.”

“No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.”

Source : Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1879). “A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings”, Boston : Little, Brown,

“Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.”

“In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.”

“I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.”

Source : Interview with Camilla Johnson-Hill, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2010.

“The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.”

“I do love science. My father is a scientist.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com