Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.