The more a human being feels himself a self tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.