The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Prions are highly indestructible.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.