I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Enjoy it. Because it's happening.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!