The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

John von Neumann

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Al Goldstein

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

Evelyn Glennie

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

The aim of life is selfdevelopment. To realize one's nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

Michael Zaslow

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Edgar Cayce