“In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives”

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!

You know, there’s such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it’s very hard to decide which side we’re really on.