"There are other people coming out now, like Adele, people who are making their own music, doing their own stuff. That's a good thing. I think that music's okay. I don't think we need to worry about it."

“So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.”

Source : "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". "Science Talk" with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

“Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.”

“If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.”

“I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?”

“To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's a death sentence. That's what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times - hell, maybe even today - I'm gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life.”

“Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.”

Source : JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”