"The foundation of joy is a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me."

"In the depths of adversity, the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."