If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

I am the luckiest man in the world.

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

Presentation, not reference.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

I like out, I like the outside world.

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.