"I'm out of ammunition on this."

"Models are to be used, not believed."

"Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them."

"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves."

"It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"The gallery in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm."

"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."

"No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."