The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

With Cosmic Ordering life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Stephen Richards

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Danica McKellar

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Anne Roiphe

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

Laurell K Hamilton

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

Adriana Trigiani

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

John W. Foster

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

Daniel Greenberg

Be good, or be good at it.

Lil Wayne

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

P. G. Wodehouse