"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."

“We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.”

“As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.”

Source : "The Rumpus interview with Jill Sobule". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. July 30, 2009.

“... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.”

Source : Donald J. Cram (1990). “From Design to Discover :”, Amer Chemical Society

“The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.”

“I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.”

“If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.”

“Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.753, Stanford University Press