Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.