"Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see."

“So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.”

Source : "Show Tracker". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, articles.latimes.com. February 12, 2009.

“But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.”

“Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.”

“There is little difference in being lost and exploring.”

Source : Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

“Great ideas are not charitable.”

Source : Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”