As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

Do not be bad because others treat you badly.

Life and summer are fleeting, ’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.