I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Chauncey Depew

Belly buttons are cool!

Lauren Graham

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Jane Goodall

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

Kate Millet

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V. S. Pritchett

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Herbert Spencer

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Joe E. Lewis

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

Neil Gaiman

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot