There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

James Cash Penney

In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY.

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My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

Hugh Leonard

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Daniel H. Wilson

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one's grip on that quiet sense of inner self and hitching one's wagon to a single standard of beauty. The stress of leaping through that hoop insinuates itself into the young heart and soul with a vengeance, and insecurities go from being hard little buds of confusion to overripe, snarled and tyrannical fruits that hang on the vine as we age.

Debra Ollivier

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Sherwood Boehlert

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Charlize Theron

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Carl Sagan