“My worth is not based on the work of my hands despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am ...”

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, Id be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

“Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.”

“Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that weve engaged in right living, verses believing that living is a right.”

“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”

“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

“[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?”

“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”