Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.