Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause.Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while theangels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something tofight for that may— justmay— win out.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..