Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?