Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

Experience is of particulars only.

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.