My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Scottish Proverb

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ernst Mayr

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Gloria Naylor

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Margaret Gatty

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Mike Yaconelli

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love

Perry Farrell

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Federico Fellini, "Atlantic Mont

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws we find concerning it, are not laws introducing it; but regulating it, as an already existing thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron