"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

“Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?”

“I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.”

“I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.”

Source : "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.

“Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.”

Source : 1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

“God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.”

“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.”

“Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.”

“Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.”