Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

All that running and exercise can do for you is make you healthy.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.