Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Galileo Galilei, quoted in M Kli

Integrity is not something that you should have to think about...nor consider doing...but something in the heart that is already done.

Doug Firebaugh

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.

Steve Maraboli

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

James Young

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Barack Obama

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Studs Terkel

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

Scotty McCreery

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Ross Perot

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Yao Ming

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Tom Stoppard