I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

We #fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations.

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Know that you yourself are a miracle.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18 and then I sort of straightened out.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.