She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me, ' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.

It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things...some things just have to be done.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.