Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.

Too many books. Too few centuries.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

I am fat and I don't care.

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.