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“If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.”
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“Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.”
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“I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.”
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“We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.”
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“Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down”
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“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”
Source : "Baby Talk" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 29, 2009. 
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“I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.”
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“In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.”
Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.287
