“Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!”

“The problem is, only a few people get to be scientists. You see the dilemma? Given the choice between a truth they can appreciate and a lie they can live, most people will take you-know-what.”

“For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.”

“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”

“In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.”

“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”

“Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.”

“You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys.”

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”