"I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start.""

“No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.”

“I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.”

“History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.”

Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1984). “Tales for a stormy night: the collected crime stories”, Backcountry Pubns

“I wonder at the idleness of tears.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1928). “Lizette Woodworth Reese ...”

“If you look at figures, we have a good supply of doctors in Switzerland. They always say that in the future we shall have a lack of home doctors, family doctors. I'm not sure of that, but we have a problem of formation. Every year there [are] about 1,000 students beginning medical studies, and at the end of the formation there are only 600 young people getting the diploma. It means that about 40 percent of the students fail during the studies, although there is a selection at the beginning. Forty percent is too much as failure, so probably there is a problem in the formation, education.”

“When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.”

“I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.”

“Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.”