A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

They didn’t change

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles...

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

I have a pretty easy life.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.