Life is short and evasive. This shortness and evasiveness of life is not predicated on numeric quantifiers, but embedded in the limitation on humans as mere mortals.

I know you don't believe what you teach. But I believe all what you teach. Either I am the fool or you are.

Silence beyond being the answer to fools, is sometimes the answer of fools.

The world has become a much smaller place, there is no longer room for hatred.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

No scene is ever about the words being spoken.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

America, you must be born again!