Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.
I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.
The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.
I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.
Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.
Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.