An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

The best style is the least noticeable.