It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

Andrei A. Gromyko

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Edmond de Goncourt

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Louise J. Kaplan

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W. E. B. Du Bois

You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus.

Sam Kean

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Cassandra Clare

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Malin Akerman

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

John Knowles

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward