"You can absolutely do anything if you have the belief and the desire. You're going to have setbacks, but it's important to get back up and keep going. It's a journey."

"The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition."

"I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."

"Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich."

"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."

"Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God."

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent."

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."