Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.

Ride higher in life unto the higher life.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

The world is me and I am the world.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.