She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.

Only the impossible is worth doing.

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.