"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit."

"Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out."

"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster."

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,…Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

"Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic."