I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.
It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.
I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.
