"Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves."

“The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.”

“Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.”

Source : "Why must scientists become more ethically sensitive than they used to be?" by John Ziman, Science, December 4, 1998.

“In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.”

“Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.”

“That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or reintroduce the imaginative capacity of their earlier self while nonetheless maturing. And I do think the more successful the poet is at this particular thing, the greater their achievement as a poet.”

“Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there.”

“To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.”

Source : "Tracing Her Roots". Interview With Sally Lodge, www.publishersweekly.com. March 7, 2005.

“If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.”