“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”

Chance is a second master.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Human nature craves novelty.

Hope is a working-man’s dream.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

Fear creates space for creativity. Love creates space for healing.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

I’m irrational about all things creative and I’m always late!

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Managing the power of choice, with all it’s creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.