A winded, defeated-looking fat woman in filthy coveralls trudged beside us, hearing what Miss Pefko said. She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Annie Jump Cannon

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Tim Holden

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Joan Didion

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate

Jean Baptiste Racine

I shall assume that your silence gives consent

Plato

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare

Lewis Morris

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

Vi Putnam

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

V. S. Naipaul

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Italo Calvino

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

Simone Weil