West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.

Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

Everything in life has its price.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.