"My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it."

-- Mary Ruefle

“If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.”

Source : "A Tolstoy Speaks, And Russia Listens". Interview with Celestine Bohlen, www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2003.
“I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: â€œYou must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.â€”
“You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.”
“If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!”
“Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.”

Source : Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”
“[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.”
“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”

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