I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

Don't talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart.

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?

We think it’s weak to surrender, but sometimes it’s the bravest thing we can possibly do.

Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.

Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.