The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.