He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.