A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.