We have seen too much defeatism too much pessimism too much of a negative approach.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.