Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.