“As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.”

“To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.”

“The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.”

“Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having ...”

“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazem...”

“Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”

“Such a principled disregard of ad hominem evidence is a characteristically modern prejudice of professional philosophers. For most Greek and Roman thinkers from Plato to Augustine, theorizing was b...”

“As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men hav...”

“Intellect is the virtue of ignoring ones emotions attempt to contaminate ones opinions.”

“New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.”

“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can atta...”

“Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.”

“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can e...”

“None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.”

“When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.”