Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.