A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

I love like a leaf in the wind. Please, hold your applause until the end of the performance (the last day of fall). ?

Jarod Kintz

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

Proverb

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Saint Francis de Sales

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward Phelps

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Harlan Coben

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

John Gardner

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Sir Winston Churchill

...and your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

J.K. Rowling

Success doesn't suck.

Darius Rucker

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Jim Bishop

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Nancy Astor