John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.