To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

who says love is better than hate. i feel both gives equivalent pain.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.