"The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves."

“Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.”

“All millionaires love a baked apple.”

Source : 'Vainglory' (1915) ch. 13

“No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.”

Source : Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

“There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.”

“Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.”

“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.”

“The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.”

“The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power ...”

Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company