...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Reading have got the good factor.