In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Johnny Mathis

Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisor's permission.

Jan Carlzon

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Gerhard Kocher

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Christine O'Donnell

There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

Karolina Kurkova

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

Chaka Khan

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

Robert D. Kaplan