My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Erykah Badu

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

Marilyn Hacker

I have lost everything. Lost everything.Everything. - William Herondale

Cassandra Clare

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H. P. Lovecraft

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

Sarah McLachlan

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

Marla Gibbs

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time was God's first creation.

Walter Lang

To create something you must be something.

Johann von Goethe

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Every transgression is a game, every grief easy to bear compared with having discovered beauty; it was at once the crime that could never be atoned and the hurt that could never be assuaged, the tear that could never be dried.

Halldór Laxness

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson, "Time", retort