Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.
There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone. [Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
