"If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one..."

“True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.”

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

“We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.”

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

“My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.”

Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

“Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.”

“Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.”