"I'm able to inspire other people, to see the potential of a career, they can look to me and see that they can do it."

“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.”

“The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.”

“A man is hid under his tongue.”

“The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.”

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

“Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.”

Source : Dean Ornish, M.D. (2010). “Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery”, p.111, Ivy Books

“Right is right, even if no one else does it.”

“I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.”

Source : Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.