Pleasure is a thief to business.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.