If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.

Take a break of that which you enjoy and what you don't enjoy leave it.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.

My features are completely ethnic.

The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.