The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.