New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

If you find it difficult to get along with your boss, try to reason with him and talk through your differences. If that doesn't work, drive him to suicide and take over the company.

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? pg 264

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.