"His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands, between innumerable poles."

"To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart."

"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."

"1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points."

"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"

"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"

"We become what we think about all day long."

"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works."

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."