"Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking."

“Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.”

“Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The avant-garde makes more sense to me.”

Source : "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. Jan 9, 2006.

“I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.”

“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.”

Source : "Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840". Book by Andreas Schönle, p. 108, 2000.

“Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them.”

Source : "Ep. 43 - Kyle Maynard: Inspirational Athlete, Entrepreneur & Author of 'No Excuses'". "GDA" with Kyle Davis, www.gdapodcast.com. April 26, 2017.

“The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.”

“I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.”

Source : "I am chaotic and lazy". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, "Spiegel", March 15, 2010.