The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.