Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Logic, when applied to people, fails miserably!

The love I knew was from books..

All progress of humanity happened because humans wanted to be loved and appreciated.

The miracles of life are love, faith and hope.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

You can take this job and shove it because I quit.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.