What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.

My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

I do not have OCD OCD OCD.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.