I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our hopeful and positive mental attitude to survive the situation.

For what is more lovable than failure?

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

The fearful are the failing.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.