Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Let's sleep on it and talk about it in the morning.

Hail! Thou as victor crowned.

I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.