In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To be adult is to be alone.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

The Yankees are one of the best teams. I want to stay with them forever.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.