Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.