The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.