I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.