The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

The world will not wait for us.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.