He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Maggie Kuhn

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

Polykarp Kusch

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Glenn Beck

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Henry L. Doherty

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out

Michel de Montaigne

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

Richard Dreyfuss

Language is fossil poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate Stat

If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

Mike Willesee

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

Mary Roach