Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.