With me everything turns into mathematics.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.

Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you, You shall no more be called shoemakers. But you and yours to the world's end Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the world's affairs, When we stumble, hold us; When we fall, lift us up; When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us; When we turn from what is good, turn us back; And bring us at last to Your glory.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.