My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.