Resist the short term temptation of procrastination

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.