It’s all inside of you—what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time.” He pulls away and helps me to my feet. “Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.

I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.

life is delicate, its fragile, it's a precious thing. you never know when you're going to lose it. Live life when you can because you never know which second will be your last.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

In this world, only winter is certain

Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.