Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever?

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.