"Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion."

“Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?”

Source : "He Said, She Said: Clinton Prepares To Testify". www.cnn.com.

“Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.”

“I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.202, Random House

“Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.”

“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.”

“Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

“If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.”

Source : Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

“So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.”