"I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation. ... My studies are performed with the confidence that God will not capriciously confound scientific results by "slipping in" a miracle."

“[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.”

Source : Ralph Klein's remarks of Edmonton (1990), as quoted in "Welcome to Ralph's World: 10 of Ralph Klein's most colourful quotes" by Andrea Janus, www.ctvnews.ca. March 29, 2013.

“Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.”

“Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.”

“If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.”

“They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.”

“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”

“If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.”

“The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.130, Book Tree