The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.