Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Bill Gates

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Patricia Ireland

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Hans Hofmann

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.

Andrew Jackson

I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits

Charles Dickens

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Trinidad Hunt

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Li Ka Shing

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

Lukas Haas

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Ann Landers

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown