Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

It is important to dream big. What we imagine, we become..we achieve. Even if we don ́t go the yonder, we will reach way much farther than where we currently stand.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

If we're going to have a strong and dynamic economy in the years ahead, we need to tackle some of the structural challenges that our economy faces and the tax code is one of the biggest.

One of my first office jobs was cleaning the windows on brown envelopes.

Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.