I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Jodi Picoult

Movies are an expensive business.

Albert Brooks

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

William M. Holden

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Jim Bakker

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

Abbey Lincoln

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Daniel Defoe

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore White, The Making of th

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Louis Pasteur

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Konrad Lorenz

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Andrew Wiles