Testimony http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/testimony-hor-140499.html to a U.S House of Representatives subcommittee, on NIH funding for the year 2000 (14 April 1999)
Context: We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
"Try a Little Tenderness" (interview) in Ha'aretz, March 17, 2000.
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Misattributed
Source: Concord Days
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Amos Bronson Alcott, her father, in Concord Days (1872), p. 124 : "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. But if one does not stay while staying, better let him go where he is gone the while."
Misattributed
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”
Quoted in [Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA545, 2006, Yale University Press, 0-300-10798-6, 545]
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
… live in the question.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
"Thoughts of a Free Thinker", commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (26 May 1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Context: What we will be seeking … for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.
Theater Master Art Evans! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_mg1nsTJRU (April 8, 2015)
Introduction, Sec. 17
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX
