Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Penn State is a leader in food science.

Don Sherwood

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

Ruth Gordon

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made

George Bernard Shaw

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Max Gunther

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

Judge Learned Hand, The Spirit o

?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.

John Green

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Albert Camus

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Princess Diana