A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

A book is a loaded gun.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.