Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

David Attenborough

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Geraldo Rivera

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Dave Barry

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Philip Emeagwali

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.

Stephen Richards

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

Massimo Pigliucci

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Sir Arthur Kent

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Cassandra Clare

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

Rachel Ward

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Georg Buchner