Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
