"Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath."

“Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.”

“Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.”

“I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.”

“Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.”

“I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.”

“Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”

Source : Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

“I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.”

Source : "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

“We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.”

Source : "Kathryn Schulz On Learning To Love 'Being Wrong'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.