My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Father Andre

The fashion of the time is changed

William Shakespeare

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

John Barrymore

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan, "Parade", March 2

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

J.K. Rowling

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

Jodi Picoult

The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Daniel J. Boorstin

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

I love meeting people and helping them.

Princess of Wales Diana