"I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire."

“Without supplies no army is brave.”

“I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.”

“Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

“I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'”

Source : Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser (1836). “The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser”, p.166

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.”

“I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.”

Source : "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

“The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.”

“Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.”