Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse—no question about it.

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

Why does he strive to reach for that star? It's the very star he lives upon! He works. He reaches. He struggles. He seeks. He finds! ...Never knowing he possessed it all along.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.