"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

“You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.”

Source : "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

“Budget for 2015 provides for 11.7% expenditures growth”

“It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.”

“Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.”

“I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.”

“Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.”

Source : Dean Ornish, M.D. (2010). “Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery”, p.111, Ivy Books

“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”

Source : Konrad Lorenz (2003). “King Solomon's Ring”, p.111, Routledge