“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble...” — Alexis Carrel Quote

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

I learned a lot being a career public servant, serving under both a Republican president and a Democratic president. I served the country, not a party. We need a lot more of that.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.