If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.

A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

Love is more powerful than prettiness or wittiness.

Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.

It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.