Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

The moment of honouring our humanity is now.

For a moment i thought i had died and gone to heaven. Now i see that i am very much alive, and heaven has been brought to me

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

I have more confidence than I ever have before.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.