Every man born of woman has problems.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

I'm not a natural songwriter.