"We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future."

“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”

Source : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.24

“Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“It is difficult to say what is impossible”

“It's nice when people approach you to help.”

Source : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”

“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”