Kary Mullis Quotes

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

Whenever I'm stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It's so peaceful.

Relax! Life is beautiful!

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

I think there's good in everybody.

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.