I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

William Shakespeare

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

Henning Mankell

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Leacock

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Ernest Hemingway

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Stephen Richards

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Robert Ballard

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Charles Fillmore

God is the same everywhere.

Leo Tolstoy

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Georg Simmel

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

Paul Davies