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“‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!”
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“Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.”
Source : Interview with Norman Ross, November 17, 1957.
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“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”
Source : Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”
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“I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.”
Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
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“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.”
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“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.”
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“The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.”
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“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”
Source : "Anderson Cooper Comes Out: ‘The Fact Is, I’m Gay" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012. 
