Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

James Beard

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Herodotus

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

Phillip Noyce

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Johann von Goethe

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller R

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Benjamin Franklin

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

Anne Bronte

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

George Orwell