Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

That which is cannot be true.

The will to live that possesses us to create medicine, to become firefighters or teachers, is the same will to live that is woven into all living beings.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

You get exactly what you are FEELING.