I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Aime Cesaire

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Walt Whitman

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Joy Baluch

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Molly Ivins

Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.

Lisa Edelstein

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Alison Gomme

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Jason Segel

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. As busy, active, relevant ministers, we want to earn our bread by making a real contribution. This means first and foremost doing something to show that our presence makes a difference. And so we ignore our greatest gift, which is our ability to enter into solidarity with those who suffer. Those who can sit in silence with their fellowman, not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.

Henri Nouwen