Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.
I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.
I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.
We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.
Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
