But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Alanis Morissette

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Bill Maher

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

David Baker

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Paul Lockhart

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Curtis LeMay

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Blaise Pascal

Remember, anyone can juggle for a second.

John Alejandro King

Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Jane Austen

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

Eli Pariser