When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.