"Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are."

“There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely remember pain, but when I see it in her I feel it in myself, in disproportionate measure. it creeps into my eyes, stinging, burning.”

“Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.”

“In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency”

“Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.”

Source : Attributed to Chaim Weizmann, after a long trans-Atlantic journey; "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" credits Nigel Calder, "Einstein's Universe", 1979.

“When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.”

“The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.”

Source : Senate Confirmation Hearing: Hillary Clinton, www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2009.

“[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.”