To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

Love is the oxygen for heart.So love as your life depends on it.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.