To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

You take the opportunities given to you. If we always waited for perfection, we'd miss out on so much. Don't you think?

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?