Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.