Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.
I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.
One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.
Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.
There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.