Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

God answered the prayers of animals.