Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

Jonathan Winters

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Lionel Trilling

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain

Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us or exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Ambroise Valery

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Wendy Liebman

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Toba Beta

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

James Irwin