I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

Vidal Sassoon

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

Alex Sanchez

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

Boris Pasternak

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Nelson Mandela

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Bill Owens

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Kyle Chandler

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Halle Berry

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Terry Pratchett

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

Giuseppe Mazzini

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton