The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

Chance favors only those who court her.

Chance favours only those who know how to court her.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Moving forward first requires a step to be taken.

We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.