Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Max von Sydow

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

Bill Williams

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Gaston Bachelard

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

Sally Ride

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Rita Mae Brown

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Francis Bacon

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Abraham Lincoln

Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

Deborah Brodie

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Lewis Mumford

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Christopher McCandless

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Imogen Cunningham