"I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty."

“I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.”

“Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.”

“Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.”

“Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.”

“I’ll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.”

“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”

“I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.”

“He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you,”

Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr