A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

A thought is an idea in transit.

I cannot live without books.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.