The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

True brothers are never blood-related. But born of the spirit.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.