If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Philip Pullman

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

Frank Press

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

Steve Maraboli

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Denzel Washington

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Rod Blagojevich

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

Leonard Ravenhill

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

I don't mind what the role is at all I just want to play cool characters.

Daniel Cudmore

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Diana Nyad