Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths.

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!

Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.