Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.

BIGGER THE THOUGHT, DIFFICULT TO CAUGHT, TO SURVIVE IT TAUGHT, WITH HOPE WE FOUGHT, SUCCESS WILL BE BROUGHT.

empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.