If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.