Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

The science world has no such coherence, cohesion or cooperation. It's a bunch of academics who were raised on the idea of communication being a frivolous add-on.

When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.