When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.
The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.