Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.