"Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does."

“What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

“I am not a clone of Sarah Palin. I have my own thoughts.”

Source : "Christine O'Donnell interview: 'The Republicans have lost their way'" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2010.

“No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,”

Source : "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

“There is no conflict between religion and science.”

“Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.”

“The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.”

“Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.”

Source : Henry Howard, “Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace”

“There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.”