"when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you."

-- Merle Shain

“If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.”
“The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.”
“Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]”
“The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
“I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.”
“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.”
“All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection”
“I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.”

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