Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Every good act is like a seed that we sow. We don’t know what it will bear, but it will bear some fruit some day.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

Nights're cold now. Nights g'cold, y'get sick. S'what happens.

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

You will become what you believe. The truth is, I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.