If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

Definitions create conditions.

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right and always sound.

I would rather listen to someone who tried and failed than someone who dreamed but never tried.

Lazy people live lonely lives.

A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn’t impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically, ' they really mean, 'not really.'

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that, we're very similar.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.