"Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different.... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay.""

“I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1863). “Heroic idyls, with additional poems”, p.230

“I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Wicked's Idina Menzel Plus News of Cook and Ripley". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. December 19, 2003.

“You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.9, New Society Publishers

“Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.”

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

“It is much easier to wear a cross than to bear a cross.”

“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”

“Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.”