Knowledge is not determined by what you know, but by whether you believe you can always learn.

Overachievers look forward to the finish line, underachievers look back to see who they are beating.

Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.

That said the conspirators: Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I think you can learn from history.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

Villains are meant to be hated.

The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES!

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.