I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

Every life is finite, Will.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

My mom and I have always had issues.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.