We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

Maurice Sendak

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Kate DiCamillo

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Alanis Morissette

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

Marissa Mayer

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.

Carolyn Murphy

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

Sophia Bush

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Edgar Fawcett

The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis