The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.

This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; a book which will touch your heart and give you hope.

Ruth Hawkey

I'd like to have a family.

Maria Sharapova

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

William Shakespeare

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Tom Glazer

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Robert Benchley

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Caryl Haskins

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

Mary Stuart Masterson

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Leo Tolstoy

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle