Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Nature's first great title--mind.

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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.

We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.

Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would men!

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

When all candles be out, all cats be gray.

called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.

If danger's a step away, safety's step away.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.