One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

The truth which sets men free is the truth which most men fear to accept.

A nurse later told me that I was her ‘”One.” Meaning, I was her one story of hope to tell others who are facing similar odds against them.

These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.