"Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey."

“We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.”

“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.31, William H. Calvin

“Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).”

“Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.”

“Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.”

“True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”

“I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.”