"It's not often that I get the benefit of the doubt."

"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us"

"For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong."

"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process."

"Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense."

"Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?"

"The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition."

"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them."

"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."

"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."

"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."