Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

Learning means change and change is usually difficult.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I'm a character actor.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.