After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where you most needed to go.

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

Twirling round ‘n round -faster and faster …she dreams this circular motionwill take her home, high in the heavens where hurt is onlyan earthly world.

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people