There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

More depended on the student than on the school.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.