“Look upon this advice in the friendly way it is meant, as I wish you to be a independent as your circumstances will admit and to be so, is to exert yourself in the management of your estate. If you do not no one else will.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“But it was not sudden — I did not wake up one morning and find that chemistry was dead for me; it was gradual, it stole upon me bit by bit. it happened at first, I think, without my even realizing it.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com