"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"Never allow a problem to be solved by those who created it."