Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.