I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Madeline Miller

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Al Gore

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

Leo Tolstoy

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Samuel Butler

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

LeAnn Rimes

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Robert Southey

Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.

Hindu Spiritual

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Mildred Barthel

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Kahlil Gibran