Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine a knowledge of chemistry and of some branches of natural history and indeed of several other departments of science affords useful assistance.

Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring perseverance in exercise adaptation of dress to the variations of climate simple and nutritious aliment and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession my academic education is subnormal.

We have not given science too big a place in our education but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.