"Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to."

“I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.”

“For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.”

“You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.”

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“Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!”

“Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.”

“I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.”

“The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.”

“Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

Source : Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media