The greatest contribution you can make to women’s rights, is to be the absolute … best at what you do.

I’ve been very lucky in this second marriage. It’s just luck. It’s absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn’t, so overall I feel blessed.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace?

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.