Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Shannon Lucid

Hedges between keep friendships green.

Proverb

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Melissa Etheridge

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Ruby Wax

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

Proverb

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Thomas Carlyle

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

Alonzo Mourning

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

Aristotle

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Samuel Butler

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Cole Porter