Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

Shawty Imma only tell you this once, you the illest And for your loving Imma die hard like Bruce Willis

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance