The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!

I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.