All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

Clancy had taught me well.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.