I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

No human was created without a purpose

Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

The odds will always favor the man with a plan