the reason for anger is always fear.

until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.