The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

​God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?