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

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

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

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.

More than the disappearing trees and roses, it’s the human tendency to suppress the ‘Natural Voice’ of the ‘Nature’s Man’ which is sorrowful.

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.